Liberian Law

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Liberian Law
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Liberia Cornell Connection

• Liberian Recodification Project - 1950s 1970s
  Professor Milton Konvitz (Law and ILR)
• Civil war in Liberia (1989--2003), the National
  Law Library and other law library collections
  destroyed
• no record of its legal history or the present law
  code.
• Current interest in Liberia includes both the
  academic community and the practitioners who are
  helping to rebuild the country.

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Collection

• 700 pages, 30 items
• Acts Passed by the Legislature, Republic of
  Liberia, 1857-1891
• Acts of the Governor and Council of Liberia,
  1840-1844
• Liberian Statutes 1847-1857
• Constitution and Laws of the Commonwealth of
  Liberia, 1846
• Statute Laws of the Commonwealth of Liberia, and
  Plan of Civil Government, 1841
• Some items may be unique survivors now archived
  only at Cornell

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Workflow

• Planning
• Conservation/Preservation coordination
• Testing of image capture/access derivative
  settings
• Testing of OCR results
• Platform delivery and deliverable format options

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Workflow

• Digitization grayscale tiff
• Quality Control
• Metadata structural at chapter/section level
  for online access
• Deliverables OCR, access derivatives, PDF
• Challenges condition of materials, variability
  by page

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Access Discovery

• Delivery page turning with title level PDFs
• Publicity Law Library tapped into years of
  inquiries for mass announcement of availability
• Discovery less handling of originals, but
  increased visibility for all Cornell Liberian
  resources
• Future OCR technology improved since 2005,
  detailed chapter/section details, additional
  content

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