Fwd: Re: deLevie and Williams: Legal Citation Hackathon, Washington, DC,

Here is a brief report about yesterday's Legal Citation Hackathon:

Legal Citation Hackathon was held 13 September 2014 at Fastcase, in Washington, DC.

The event was organized by DC Legal Hackers.

Projects and datasets worked on at the hackathon are listed at:https://github.com/dclegalhackers/citation-hackathon

One Twitter hashtag for the event was #legalhack

Click here for a storify of Twitter tweets and photos from the event.

Here are some results of the hackathon, many of which deal with the Fastcase Public API, described here by Joshua Auriemma:

[group member] Joshua Auriemma wrote a series of regular expressions for legal citation extraction
Ben Dixon wrote a “simple wrapper [a Ruby gem] around the Fastcase API” (HT@adelevie)
[group member] V. David Zvenyach, [group member] Alan deLevie, and Ben Dixon worked on David’s Permafrast, “a human-centric wrapper around the Fastcase Public API” [code is here on GitHub]
“legalmarkdown.com now allows automatic links to reported judicial opinions,” owing to Permafrast (HT @vdavez)
Sam Glover said he would use Permafrast to develop a WordPress plugin for the Fastcase Public API [...]'

HT @DCLegalHackers https://twitter.com/DCLegalHackers/status/510807836340023297

On Saturday, September 13, 2014 3:42:16 AM UTC-4, Robert Richards wrote:

Legal Citation Hackathon is taking place today, 13 September 2014, at Fastcase's offices in Washington, DC:
http://www.meetup.com/DCLegalHackers/events/193491602/

Several members of our group are participating.

Twitter tweets might appear under the hashtag #legalhack https://twitter.com/search?q=%23legalhack

On Saturday, September 6, 2014 11:45:46 AM UTC-4, Eric Mill wrote:

I'm excited!

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Robert Richards <robertrichards03@gmail.com> wrote:

Group members Alan deLevie and Rebecca Williams tell us that Legal Citation Hackathon http://www.meetup.com/DCLegalHackers/events/193491602/ will be held September 13, 2014 at Fastcase's offices in Washington, DC. The event is organized by DC Legal Hackers.

Description;

'What will be "hacked" on?

- Improving citation parsers (such as github.com/unitedstates/citation)

- Building applications that use the parsers (such as github.com/adelevie/downlaw)

- Anything else! If you're generally interested in legal hacking, but not in legal citations, please attend! We're happy to facilitate collaboration between lawyers and coders.

'SCHEDULE:

9:30 - 10 Breakfast

10 - 12 Hacking

12 - 12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 4:00 Continued Hacking

'After: drinks, pats on backs, better citation technology

* * * * * * * *

'Follow along on twitter with the hashtag #LegalHack or at www.twitter.com/DCLegalHackers

HT @DCLegalHackers https://twitter.com/DCLegalHackers/status/508017363305136128

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