Global Legal Information Network - Customer Case Study

GLIN is a legal repository for the Law Library of Congress. It has been around for 30 years, and in digital form since the early 90s. However, it was only partially publicly available before February 2005 when a Cayenne-based system was launched. The system has roughly 200,000 records, spanning 200 gb of fulltext data and 15 gb of associated metadata. It represents the world’s largest publicly available legal index, spanning 10 languages and 35 jurisdictions. The system is accessible in 4 languages currently and will support 14 languages in the nearest future, thus becoming the most internationalized site in the federal government, after the IRS.