State Supreme Court Web Broadcasting

Rory Perry, Clerk of the West Virginia Supreme Court and frequent speaker at Court Technology Conferences reports on his Blog that there are now eleven state supreme courts that are providing live and archived internet video streams of their oral arguments. Click here to read more.

Imaging Space Calculations

From Archive Builders: http://www.archivebuilders.com/abcourses.html

Computer storage requirements for various digitized document types:

1 scanned page (8 1/2 by 11 inches, A4) = 50 KiloBytes (KByte)(on average, black & white, CCITT G4 compressed)

1 file cabinet (4 drawer) (10,000 pages on average) = 500 MegaBytes (MByte)= 1 CD (ROM or WORM)

2 file cabinets = 10 cubic feet = 1,000 MBytes = 1
GigaByte (GByte)

10 file cabinets = 1 DVD (WORM)

1 box (in inches: 15 1/2 long x 12 wide x 10 deep) (2,500 pages) = 1 file drawer = 2 linear feet of files = 1 1/4 cubic feet = 125 MBytes

8 boxes = 16 linear feet = 2 file cabinets = 1 GByte