AustLII: Creating national and regional infrastructure for all legal research

Funding: 2002: $277,000

Funding or Partner Organisation: University of New South Wales (The University of New South Wales)
Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Infrastructure)
Asia-Pacific Military Law Centre, Dept of Defence
Australian Business Ltd
IP Australia
Sun Microsystems
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Dept Foreign Affairs and Trade)

Start year: 2002

Summary: This is the third year of a project to develop an online national legal research facility at the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII - http://www.austlii.edu.au/) comprising completion or creation of (i) a comprehensive national primary legal materials collection; (ii) key historical legal materials; (ii) a regional legal information service; (iv) a gateway facility to other Australian legal materials; (v) a core collection of secondary materials; and (vi) computing capacity necessary for research into large-scale computerisation of law. The outcome will be to enhance the research productivity of all Australian legal researchers no matter where located, and to enhance AustLII's own capacity to carry out research into large-scale computerisation of law.

Keywords: computerisation of law legal research hypertext law information retrieval

FOR Codes: Law, Justice and Law Enforcement not elsewhere classified, Information Storage, Retrieval and Management, Information services not elsewhere classified, Justice and the law not elsewhere classified

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.