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NEWS FROM AUSTLII http://www.austlii.edu.au/
Friday 27th September 1996
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CONTENTS:
Introduction
Australian Internet Awards
Welcome to Trina Cairns
AustLII Conference on Law on the Net POSTPONED
Supreme Court of New South Wales (1996 selected decisions)
Australian Press Council Decisions (1976 - )
Residential Tenancies Tribunal of NSW Decisions (1986 - )
High Court Bulletin No.6 (as at 26 September 1996)
High Court Bulletin No.5 (as at 27 August 1996)
Recognition
Technical Updates
Statistics
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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to another long awaited 'News from AustLII'. We've been busy
again, working on behind the scenes changes and the addition of some more
collections. A number of you may also be aware of our continuing
negotiations in relation to materials from some new sources which will be
added to the AustLII collection during the coming months.
The AustLII team has expanded a little in the last month with the arrival
of Trina Cairns (see below) and an additional staff member is set to join
us during October. Thanks to the continuing and extraordinary support of
the Law Foundation of NSW we have recently purchased additional
high-capacity disk storage and we are also able to fund an additional
Primary Materials project officer (more on that shortly).
Other than that, our collective health has improved and development
continues as always ...
Look out for another 'News from AustLII' early next week!
Regards, Geoff
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AUSTRALIAN INTERNET AWARDS
http://www.webawards.info.au/
* Best Professional Services Site (Judges Award)
* One of the Top 5 Most Popular Web Sites (Popular Vote)
Well, thanks to the friends and supporters of AustLII we received a
couple of accolades at the Australian Internet Awards on Tuesday evening.
We won an award for the Best Professional Services Site. Finalists in the
category also included the Law Foundation of NSW site 'Foundation Law'
and the Gilbert & Tobin site
which won an award for the Best Industry Site.
We also placed among the Top 5 Most Popular Web Sites in Australia as
decided by popular vote.
Many thanks for your continued support.
Geoff, Andrew, Graham, Philip and Trina.
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WELCOME TO TRINA CAIRNS
AustLII has a new Project Officer, Trina Cairns, a Law/Arts graduate
from the University of Melbourne, with an administration and web
background at the University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine. Trina will
be principally responsible for AustLII's Treaties database (funded by
the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) and other related projects.
Trina can be contacted via email at trina@austlii.edu.au
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AustLII 'Law on the Net' CONFERENCE POSTPONED
http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/conference.html
AustLII wishes to apologise for the lack of information provided about
the postponement of our 'Law on the Net' Conference, which was to have
been held on 30 September and 1 October 1996.
We regret any inconvenience that this postponment may have caused to
proposed speakers or attendees.
We will now be holding the Conference in 1997. Details will appear on the
AustLII pages and in 'News from AustLII' when a new date is arranged.
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SUPREME COURT OF NSW DECISIONS
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/nsw/supreme_ct/
We now have a partial database of New South Wales Supreme Court decisions
since April 1996. The database is under construction and new decisions
will be added in due course. The decisions are as provided by the court.
Thanks to the staff of the Supreme Court of New South Wales for their
assistance in the provision of the data.
Special thanks to the Law Foundation of New South Wales for their
continued funding of the AustLII primary legal materials and for their
assistance in obtaining permission to publish these materials.
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AUSTRALIAN PRESS COUNCIL DECISIONS
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/apc/
We now have available on AustLII a database containing approximately 900
adjudications of the Australian Press Council made since 1976. The
adjudications can be searched alone or in combination with other
databases.
Thanks to the Australian Press Council and particularly Professor David
Flint for making these materials available.
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RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES TRIBUNAL OF NSW DECISIONS
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/nsw/rtt/
We now have available on AustLII a database containing approximately 1000
decisions of the Residential Tenancies Tribunal of NSW since 1986. Thanks
to the Residential Tenancies Tribunal of NSW for making these materials
available.
Special thanks to Maya Kessler and the Chairperson of the Tribunal, Sally
Chopping.
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HIGH COURT BULLETIN No.6 (as at 26 September 1996)
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/hca/bulletin/hcab9606.html
HIGH COURT BULLETIN No.5 (as at 27 August 1996)
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/hca/bulletin/hcab9605.html
Early yesterday evening we made available High Court Bulletin No.6 which
has been prepared by the High Court of Australia Library and is current
as at the 26th of September. Apologies for the lack of notification
regarding High Court Bulletin No.5.
The High Court Bulletin provides catchwords and details regarding cases
currently before the High Court.
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RECOGNITION
* Weekend Australian's 'Syte' multimedia section
http://www.australian.aust.com/syte/sytehome.htm
Thanks to the Weekend Australian's new 'Syte' section (7-8 Sep 96) for
including AustLII in its 'hottest sites on the Web'. 'One of the best
legal databases in the world', they said.
Thanks.
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TECHNICAL UPDATES
* RAID Array
With thanks to the Law Foundation of NSW, AustLII has recently taken
delivery of a 32G (raw space) RAID disk array. The array will allow us to
move our focus from 'making do' with available space to properly
allocating space within a new high-performance framework. Although
users may not notice dramatic changes to document access times, these
will be much faster due to the very high I/O performance of striped
disk and an optical fibre interface.
* SINO and interface scripts
Behind-the-scenes changes have been made to the SINO interface which
should result in improved performance at times of heavy load.
* WWW Server Performance
We have been spending significant quantities of time investigating and
improving the performance of our WWW servers. Some of you may have
noticed improvements in speed and reliability over the last couple of
weeks.
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JULY AustLII STATISTICS SUMMARY
489,190 'hits' in July
38,000 'sessions' in July
1878 peak daily users
96 peak concurrent users
26,880 peak daily requests
AUGUST AustLII STATISTICS SUMMARY
440,000 pages of HTML (approx.)
12,372,000 hypertext links
2,339 MB of indexed text
765,880 'hits' in August
54,448 'sessions' in August
2,405 peak daily users
113 peak concurrent users
38,797 peak daily requests
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