Volunteer for a Scientific EDD Research Project

If you are a lawyer, paralegal, or law student you may qualify to be a relevancy reviewer for a grand information science experiment sponsored the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). See: NIST TREC Legal Track, and, Sedona Conference Open Letter. 2009 Legal Track under the leadership of Jason Baron needs volunteers for the 2009 experiment. Read on for the details on how you can be a part of this important scientific research and also see my blog on Jason R. Baron shown above for the full story.

If you email  jason.baron@nara.gov and volunteer you will later receive a detailed explanation of what files should be considered relevant and will then review thousands of files and classify them as either irrelevant, relevant, or highly relevant.See: last year’s Call for Participation by Relevance Assessors.

In view of the high number of electronic documents that must be manually reviewed for relevance, Jason and the Legal Track need hundreds of volunteers, all willing to donate substantial time to this worthy, scientific endeavor. It is open to all law students, paralegals, and attorneys.

Jason has given me permission to invite all of our law student, paralegal, and attorney readers to join in the experiment and become a reviewer for the 2009 experiment. The review time will be needed in August and September of 2009. You can control the amount of review work you take on and do the work at home, or wherever you want, at any times you want, 24/7. Have trouble sleeping, have free time, tired of golf? Don’t waste your time watching tv or cruising the Internet. Instead, contribute some of your time and expertise to the advancement of science. Law students can receive pro bono credit in schools where that is required and we can all pad our resume with a really cool line item. For more information on how you can help, email Jason Baron at jason.baron@nara.gov.