Litchfield Unbound: Unlocking Legal History with Metadata, Digitization, and Digital Tools

Notebooks written by students at the Litchfield Law School are among the primary sources for understanding the influence of English law in this country. The notebooks provide rich documentation of how the common law and elements of English law were presented, explained, and compared with American la...

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Published in:Law and history review 2016-11, Vol.34 (4), p.831-855
Main Authors: Eiseman, Jason, Bagnall, Whitney, Kellett, Cate, Lam, Caitlyn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archives
Bibliographies
Cataloging
Common law
Digital archives
Digital preservation
Digitization
History
Law libraries
Law schools
Law students
Library collections
Library materials
Metadata
Metadata standards
Web archives
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Summary:Notebooks written by students at the Litchfield Law School are among the primary sources for understanding the influence of English law in this country. The notebooks provide rich documentation of how the common law and elements of English law were presented, explained, and compared with American law in a formal classroom setting during the Early Republic. The digitization project described here, the first large-scale digitization initiative undertaken at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School, with the cooperation of the Litchfield Historical Society, is intended to organize, describe, and analyze those notebooks with a web site containing a database, bibliography, inventory, and links to images. The Litchfield student notebook project was intended not only to create digital surrogates of important historical sources, but also to inform future digital legal history projects at the Lillian Goldman Law Library.
ISSN:0738-2480
1939-9022
DOI:10.1017/S0738248016000328