The 1998 CALI Conference: Preparing for the Road Ahead


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1998 Conference: Preparing for the Road Ahead

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THE ELECTRONIC STATE CONSTITUTIONS PROJECT
Thursday, June 25, 1998
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Nick Finke
Director, Center for Electronic Text in the Law
University of Cincinnati College of Law
513-556-0103
nick.finke@law.uc.edu

The STEP (South Texas Electronic Publishing) Initiative is working on a pilot project to prepare the Texas Constitution in an SGML format that will allow the user to view the constitution at any particular date (e.g., Feb. 14, 1897) or to take a particular provision and trace its amendment history. A method (possibly XLL) will also be used to allow the creation of inward links so that relevant documents can be linked to particular provisions or scholarly annotations added.
The goal is to provide the tools and protocols so that others make extend the project to other federal-component constitutions throughout the U.S. and around the world.