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Arkansas attorney general pledges $1 million to digitize state constitutional papers with Oxford’s Quill Project
Summary
Attorney General announced a $1 million commitment to the University of Arkansas to digitize constitutional convention records and other primary documents and to integrate them with Oxford University’s Quill Project; university and archives leaders described holdings, technical approach and an initial 12-month target for early materials.
Attorney General Tim Griffin announced that he has set aside $1,000,000 to fund a University of Arkansas-led effort to digitize Arkansas’s constitutional convention materials and related primary sources and to link them to Oxford University’s Quill Project.
Griffin said the goal is to make historically important but hard-to-search materials—convention journals, correspondence, newspapers and manuscripts—readily searchable for lawyers, judges, scholars and the public. "If there is information about our constitution . . . we have not made it accessible, then we must correct that," he said.
Why it matters: Arkansas’s constitutions and supporting documents illuminate how drafters debated key phrases and structures that still shape state law. Griffin said his office sometimes needs archival research to draft opinions and that…
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