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CEILCommunity of Experts onInternet Law

Kees van Noortwijk

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Centre for Computers and Law

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Overview

• Tools for cooperation• Overview of the BSCW system• Document collection on Internet Law• CEIL: using a website as a front end• Conclusions

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Project History

• 2002/2003: “RechtenOnline”• ICT applications for legal education• Project: “Support for Cooperative Work”• Use “Groupware” in education• Possibly internationally

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BSCW

• Product of the Frauenhofer Institute• Cheap (almost free) for universities• Can be installed on a local Linux server• Extended functions for cooperation

– Shared documents– Discussions– Possibility to invite new members– User rights management

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BSCW Environment

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Documents in BSCW

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Drawbacks of BSCW

• Too many functions, confusing• Glitches in management of user rights• No indexes, just files in folders• Too rich an environment for most of our

needs

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Adding a standard web site

• Especially for ‘end users’ (consumers, who do not add material)

• In fact just an index• Can be arranged / ordered as needed• Documents stored only once, on BSCW

server

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CEIL main page

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Viewing documents

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Adding content

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Thank You!