Ohio Bar Automated Research (OBAR) Papers 1966-1989

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Ohio Bar Automated Research (OBAR) Papers 1966-1989

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Similar to professionals and practitioners in other disciplines, the legal profession began exploring automated knowledge systems as a way to efficiently manage and access a burgeoning amount of information during the 1950s and 60s. This collection documents the history and development of the Ohio Bar Automated Research (OBAR) organization, a nonprofit subsidiary of the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA). After crafting a service definition calling for a non-indexed, online, interactive service to search the full text of Ohio legal materials, OBAR contracted with Data Corporation, an Ohio based company, to develop a database that subsequently laid the groundwork for Mead Data Central's LEXIS, the world's first commercial online legal research service in 1973.

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Case Western Reserve University, the Judge Ben C. Green Law Library

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A group of Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA) members began investigating computer assisted legal research technology in the mid 1960s, subsequently forming a nonprofit subsidiary in 1967, the Ohio Bar Automated Research (OBAR), to develop a computer assisted legal research system for Ohio lawyers. OBAR contracted with Data Corporation, an Ohio based company specializing in information retrieval, to create the service. Essentially Data Corporation would provide the technology develop...

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