LexBlog Legal Blog Feed Project Creates Free and Open Feed for Legal Research Providers

LexBlog Legal Blog Feed Project

LexBlog is making it’s aggregated and curated data base of legal blogs freely available to legal research providers (libraries, legal research companies/platforms, AI solutions) via an enhanced RSS feed.

Providers will have open and free access to almost a half a million legal blog posts and ongoing feed of posts from 1,400 blogs and 23,000 blog authors.

Legal blogs represent the leading source of legal insight and commentary on the law today.

Articles from lawyers, law professors, law students and business professionals in the legal field that used to find their way into law reviews, journals, periodicals and even books are now predominately published on WordPress, an open source publishing solution which grew out of blog publishing.

These articles, then annotated case law, codes and regulations, the things we classify as primary law. It was common practice for lawyers to cite at the trial and appellate level this secondary law as persuasive analysis of primary law – still is, except this secondary law is now generally published on blog software.

The problem (we see as an opportunity) in annotating primary law with secondary law comes from the democratization of the printing press. Legal blog posts come from everywhere.

As a solution, LexBlog will start offering an enhanced RSS feed of over 400,000 legal blog posts from 1400 sources and 23,000 authors.

The RSS feed allows a partner to pull into their data base the following content from a post:

<title>
- Title of the post
<link>
- Link to the original post
<date>
- Date post was published
<creator>
- The author of the post
<category>
- The category of the post
<content>
- The content of the post
<source>
- The Source term associated with the post
<organization>
- The Membership term associated with the post
Our RSS Terms of Service is posted here:

LexBlog vets blogs so as to limit the feed to credible sources, manages the onboarding of the feeds from the blogs and sets up/maintains the feed for our partners.

Our Legal Blog Feed Project is another way in which we can empower and inspire legal bloggers, as well as contribute to the advancement of the law.

We look forward to seeing partners from legal research, legal libraries, AI and legal research platforms use our free open. We also look forward to their feedback.

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