1. Information Systems
@EJC 2012
Brian Rowe J.D.
Seattle University Law
University of Washington's iSchool
NTAP Coordinator @ Northwest Justice Project
May 18th 2012

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3. Background -
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13. 150 employees
+
150 volunteers

14. 20,000 to 30,000
Residents
served in a year

16. Sharing
work product

17. The Findability
Project
2007

18. Taxonomy
29 Categories

22. Google Apps Migration Guide for Legal Services
Providers lsntap.org/content/google-apps-migration-guide-legal-services-
providers

25. Analytics

26. PIKA
200,000 cases

29. More Resources
• Google Enterprise Case Study: The Findability Project
TIG final evaluation report (July 29, 2009)
• 29 Top-level Project Directories (revised May 11, 2009)
• Simplified Structural Taxonomy (revised May 11, 2009)
• File-naming best practices�
• Best practices and protocols for GSA Documents
• Organization of advocate-user directories
• Installation and configuration of a SharePoint server
• CSS selectors for GSA open source XHTML stylesheet
• PHP code for creating a “personnel” OneBox GSA
search result
http://webdogs.org/the-findability-project-archive/

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33. 165 Lawyers
17 offices

37. User Centered
Design

43. Easier to move up then down

44. Cost

45. Control

46. Best Practices

47. Card Sort

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55. meta data
learning

56. Cross Platform

57. External Data
Intagration

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59. Credits:
CC-BY Brian Rowe
Zinn photo from
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BrianR@NWJustice.org
@Sarterus
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