Progress
Posted by Nick Holmes on March 13, 2009
A small group has been actively progressing the FreeLegalWeb agenda. Here’s an update on our progress:
Active people:
- With me, Robert Casalis de Pury and Harry Metcalfe are now jointly managing the project.
- Francis Davey is actively contributing to the development of the spec and content.
- Rudi Moffit is helping us develop and deliver our funding pitch.
- On the government side, Richard Stirling (Cabinet Office) and John Sheridan (OPSI) are facilitating the project via the POI agenda and have provided Rudi’s services.
- Thanks to William Flack, Nearly Legal, Joe Ury and Stephen Moore for their input as to content.
- Thanks also to all others who have contributed comments here and on the Google Group.
Development status:
A set of about pages and some pre-prototype visuals have been prepared to illustrate and prove concepts and help us develop the spec. Citator development is under way.
Data and content provision:
- The OPSI legislation API is near final.
- BAILII will be providing the judgments metadata we require.
- Stephen Moore of CaseCheck has agreed in principle to us syndicating all case summaries from CaseCheck (which are licensed on a CC by-nc-sa basis). Currently CaseCheck publishes about 4,000 (Scottish/UK) case summaries; these are to be complemented in April by about another 5,000 (E&W/UK) sourced from Law Brief Update.
- Francis Davey, Nearly Legal and William Flack are already involved re content for the Housing pilot. I will be pursuing others in this and other areas once we’ve finalised our pitch.
Current priorities are:
- Incorporate a Community Interest Company
- Complete the Funding Proposal
- Complete the Functional Spec
We should in the next few weeks be in a position to seriously tout for some funding and move this on.
