A cross section of law librarians from all types of libraries was also enlisted to review the progress in developing this unique digital library. The document structure of Dienst embraces documents of different types and is currently in use in digital libraries such as the Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library, Open Archives Initiative, Cornell University Library Making of American Collection, and others. Dienst Metadata embraces current standards including Dublin Core, RFC1807 and the Open Archive Metadata set, all of which are used in many academic disciplines. Its intuitive web-browser based user interface was developed in conjunction with a team of law librarians. The Oldest Journal First Scanning and conversion began in late 1998.
All image processing is done in our Buffalo facility using the latest digital scanning technologies.
Using standard Bluebook citations along with consultations with experts in the area of legal citation, we have also tagged each journal by its official citation and page to allow the user to find any officially cited article. Our initial focus will be on the Retrospective Legal Journals. We will continue to expand the coverage of the Phase I journals while adding other journals as we move into later phases. Cornell Law Review will be the first journal to be offered from inception to date. Our ultimate goal remains to make all legal journals available on-line in their original print format.