Created at NYPL/Readium Open Book Hack Day
- Scrape Supreme Court opinions from HTML format from site
- Add basic metadata: docket number
- Add title.txt, metadata.xml
- Convert from HTML to ePUB
- Get more metadata: case title
- Get more metadata: case decision date
- Add generic cover image
- Click
epub
folder - Click on any file
- Click
View Raw
to download as.epub
- Open in an e-book reader like Readium (http://readium.org/)
- Install
pandoc
- Run
rake ebook:scrape
- Pandoc: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html
- Readium: http://readium.org/
- Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute (LII): http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/home