Resources on Digital Authentication

AALL is committed to working with other organizations to ensure the authentication and preservation of online legal resources. We are pleased with the increased state, national and international interest in seeking solutions as a result of AALL’s Authentication Report and National Summit.

Progress on Digital Authentication

• ARJD Statement of Principles: "Official" On-line Documents (Rev. May 2008)
• NCCUSL Study Committee to Investigate Online Authentication
• U.S. Government Printing Office
  • Authenticated Public and Private Laws
  • Authenticated Budget of the United States Government
  • Authenticated Federal Government Documents from the U.S. Government Printing Office [Brochure]
• Utah Provides Authentication of Administrative Rules Publications - Press Release

Articles

• ABA Legal Technology Resource Center – "State-Level Primary Legal Resources Online Trustworthy?"
• Assuring Authentic Legal Information in the Digital Age
  • Part I – the Acts of Indiana and the Indiana Code, Res Gestae, June 2007, at 20.
  • Part II—the Indiana Register and the Indiana Administrative Code, Res Gestae, September 2007, at 33.
• Best Practices Exchange – "How Trustworthy Are State-Level Primary Legal Resources on the Web?"
• Can you rely on the Indiana Code?
  • Part I – Noncode sections, Res Gestae, May 2008, at 20.
• Free Government Information – "State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources"
• Indiana Law Blog – "Ind. Courts – Admissibility of Electronic Evidence – Is It Authentic?"
• "Is Primary Legal Information on the Web Trustworthy?" The Judges' Journal. Fall 2010. Vol. 49 Number 4.
• "The Lack of Effort to Ensure Integrity and Trustworthiness of Online Legal Information and Documents", The Judges’ Journal, Summer 2007, Vol.46 Num.3.
• Law Librarians’ Society of the District of Columbia – "AALL’s Authentication Summit," Law Library Lights, Summer 2007, at 26.
• "Losing the Law: a Call To Arms," 10 Green Bag 2d 279 (2007)
• "Paper Is Not a Drag," 11 Green Bag 2d 12 (2007)
• WisBlawg – From the UWLaw Library – "How Trustworthy Are State-Level Primary Legal Resources on the Web? Not Very, Says AALL Report"

• "Authentication of Online State Primary Legal Resources as a Social Justice Issue: The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act and How it Can Benefit Pro Se Litigants." Draft paper by Anna L. Endter, University of Washington Information School (May 29, 2012). Accepted for publication in Legal Reference Services Quarterly.
• Center for Technology in Government - "Opening Government's Official Legal Materials: Authenticity and Integrity in the Digital World" (February 2012)
• California Office of Legislative Counsel - "Authentication of Primary Legal Materials and Pricing Options" (December 2011)