A whole bunch of copy edits and a few reformatting tweaks

app/_projects_active/caselaw-access-project.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 title: Caselaw Access Project
 background_class: bg-pink
 logo: caselaw-logo.svg
-description: The Caselaw Access Project is an online database of over 6 million U.S. court opinions, the bulk of which were scanned from Harvard’s centuries old collection of court reporters. The collection is organized for computational research, the kind that allows researchers to look at the cases as a corpus to understand how the law has changed over time. Cases can also be viewed individually and are indexed in Google to improve the public’s free and open access to the legal documents that govern our lives.
+description: The Caselaw Access Project is an online database of over 6 million U.S. court opinions, the bulk of which were scanned from Harvard’s centuries old collection of court reporters.
 
 # Optional
 project_website: https://case.law/

app/_projects_active/h2o.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 title: H2O Open Casebook
 logo: h20-logo.svg
 background_class: bg-blue
-description: H2O Open Casebook is a platform for legal educators who want to find or create open, customizable casebooks for free. Students will spend several thousand dollars on casebooks by the time they graduate even though the bulk of the content - the cases - are in the public domain and should be freely accessible. Legal education is also changing quickly, and commercial, hardbound casebooks can’t keep up. H2O allows instructors to find open casebooks they can use or adapt, or create their own from scratch.
+description: H2O Open Casebook is a platform for legal educators who want to find or create open, customizable casebooks for free.
 
 # Optional
 project_website: https://opencasebook.org/
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ what_does_it_do: >
 
 # Optional
 why_does_it_exist: |
-  Traditional textbooks, especially legal casebooks, are heavy, expensive and inflexible.
+  Traditional textbooks, especially legal casebooks, are heavy, expensive and inflexible. Students will spend several thousand dollars on casebooks by the time they graduate even though the bulk of the content - the cases - are in the public domain and should be freely accessible. Legal education is also changing quickly, and commercial, hardbound casebooks can’t keep up. H2O allows instructors to find open casebooks they can use or adapt, or create their own from scratch.
 
 who_contributed:
   - tom-boone

app/_projects_active/perma-cc.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 title: Perma.cc
 logo: perma-logo.svg
 background_class: bg-yellow
-description: Perma.cc is a web preservation and citation tool that is changing the way lawyers, scholars, journalists, and the public preserve and cite to the web. Online content is incredibly ephemeral - it disappears anytime a website is changed or sunsetted - but we all rely on it and reference it all day, every day. Perma.cc was originally developed to ensure that legal citations of the web maintain their integrity even as the information originally cited may have since disappeared, but its utility expands far beyond the bounds of the law.
+description: Perma.cc is a web preservation and citation tool that is changing the way lawyers, scholars, journalists, and the public preserve and cite to the web.
 
 # Optional
 project_website: https://perma.cc/

app/about/index.html

@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@ <h2 class="page-hero__subtitle">{{page.description}}</h2>
       <h2 class="h2">Who We Are</h2>
       <div class="md:col-span-2 body-text flex flex-col gap-32 md:pt-20 max-w-[700px]">
         <p>We are a team of librarians, technologists, lawyers, designers, and more, and we work out of the Harvard Law School Library.</p>
-        <p>We believe that libraries play a fundamental role in humanity as open, privacy-respecting, and sustainable information spaces. We also believe technology holds great power to break down barriers to information creation, preservation, and use, but tools are never neutral: they must be thoughtfully developed to support human thriving.</p>
+        <p>We believe that libraries play a fundamental role in humanity as open, privacy-respecting, and sustainable information spaces. We also believe technology holds great power to break down barriers to information creation, preservation, and use.</p>
       </div>
     </div>
   </section>
-  
+
   <section>
     <figure>
       <picture>
@@ -114,11 +114,8 @@ <h2 class="h2">Past Affiliates</h2>
   <section class="container pb-120 md:pb-220 flex flex-col gap-80 md:gap-160">
     <div class="flex flex-col md:grid md:grid-cols-3 gap-24 md:gap-40">
       <h2 class="h2">Supported By</h2>
-      <p class="md:col-span-2 body-text max-w-[700px] pt-20">
-        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
-      </p>
     </div>
-    <div class="flex flex-wrap gap-x-[10vw] gap-y-100 items-center justify-center max-w-[1400px] mx-auto">
+    <div class="flex flex-wrap gap-x-[10vw] gap-y-100 items-center justify-center max-w-[500px] mx-auto">
       <img src="/assets/images/harvard-law-school-logo.png" alt="Harvard Law School Logo" />
       <img src="/assets/images/ffdw-logo.png" alt="Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web Logo" />
       <img src="/assets/images/lexisnexis-logo.png" alt="LexisNexis Logo" />

app/index.html

@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ <h2 class="text-14 md:text-18 tracking-8 uppercase font-medium">Follow our lates
 </div>
 
 <div class="flex flex-col gap-50 md:gap-80 pb-120 md:pb-220">
-  {% include 
-    project-card.html 
-    background="bg-yellow" 
-    featured="true" 
-    title="Perma.cc" 
-    description="Perma.cc is a web preservation and citation tool that is changing the way lawyers, scholars, journalists, and the public preserve and cite to the web. Online content is incredibly ephemeral - it disappears anytime a website is changed or sunsetted - but we all rely on it and reference it all day, every day. Perma.cc was originally developed to ensure that legal citations of the web maintain their integrity even as the information originally cited may have since disappeared, but its utility expands far beyond the bounds of the law."
+  {% include
+    project-card.html
+    background="bg-yellow"
+    featured="true"
+    title="Perma.cc"
+    description="Perma.cc is a web preservation and citation tool that is changing the way lawyers, scholars, journalists, and the public preserve and cite to the web."
     logo="perma-logo.svg"
     linkOne="https://perma.cc/"
     linkOneLabel="Visit Website"
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ <h2 class="h2">Who We Are</h2>
       <h2 class="h2">Our Work</h2>
       <div class="md:col-span-2 body-text flex flex-col gap-50 pt-24">
         <div class="flex flex-col gap-20 max-w-[650px]">
-          <p>We build and explore new technology through the lens of library principles. Perma.cc, a web preservation and citation tool; H2O, an open casebook authoring and reading platform; and The Caselaw Access Project, an open database of over 6 million court opinions free and open to the public.</p>
-          <p>We also conduct research to further our understanding of certain technologies and create guides for others working in our field.</p>
+          <p>We build and explore new technology through the lens of library principles.</p>
+          <p>Conducting research to further our understanding of certain technologies allows us to share our knowledge with those in the library field, or those in industry interested in making their tech more private, secure, or focused on the long term.</p>
         </div>
         {% include arrow-link.html label="View All Projects" href="/projects" %}
       </div>

app/jobs/index.html

@@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ <h2 class="h2">Background</h2>
             <div class="expandable__content--inner">
               <p>
                 The Library Innovation Lab is a team of librarians, programmers, artists, and lawyers with a broad mission: to
-                build open-source tools and services for open knowledge, available to everyone and in the public interest,
-                that solve emerging information problems from the perspective of the world's largest academic law library.
+                build open-source tools and services for open knowledge. From the perspective of the world's largest academic law library.
                 We currently support three long-running services (
                   <a class="interactive-link dark reverse" href="https://perma.cc">Perma</a>,
                   <a class="interactive-link dark reverse" href="https://opencasebook.org">H2O Open Casebook</a>, and the
                   <a class="interactive-link dark reverse" href="https://case.law">Caselaw Access Project</a>
                 ) as well as a range of shorter-term experiments.
-                On the tech side, we work most often with Django, Vue, and Postgres.
+              </p>
+              <p>On the tech side, we work most often with Django, Vue, and Postgres.
               </p>
             </div>
           </div>
@@ -71,29 +71,16 @@ <h2 class="h2">Background</h2>
                 largest law libraries, with a mission both to try new things and to think deeply about what ought to exist
                 for the long haul. Our mission offers a range of benefits for staff:
               </p>
-              <ul>
-                <li>Job stability and support. While we maintain the creative atmosphere and flexibility of a small innovation lab, we're backed by an established institution with strong benefits and support for employees.</li>
-                <li>Room to pursue your research agenda. We are located at the Harvard Law School Library and share a kitchen with  the Berkman Klein Center and metaLAB. Going to events, having conversations, developing your scholarly perspective, and exploring it through creative projects are encouraged. We will specifically prioritize these things at the cost of shipping the next feature.</li>
-                <li>Set your own pace. We are a small, self-directed group that depends on internal motivation rather than externally imposed crunch time.</li>
-                <li>Build open source. All of our projects are open source and otherwise designed to maximize the public benefit of our work.</li>
-                <li>Work on stuff that matters. The projects we make are measured by how they help people in the long term.</li>
-              </ul>
-              <h3 class="label" id="location">Location</h3>
               <p>
-                We are based in a newly-renovated space on the Harvard Law School campus. Our full-time staff positions are
-                hybrid/in-person; we typically aim to be in the office Tuesday through Thursday. Contractor and fellowship
-                positions may be remote by individual arrangement.
-              </p>
-              <h3 class="label" id="ediba">Equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging and antiracism</h3>
+                <strong>Job stability and support.</strong> While we maintain the creative atmosphere and flexibility of a small innovation lab, we're backed by an established institution with strong benefits and support for employees.</p>
               <p>
-                The work and well-being of the Lab are strengthened profoundly by the
-                diversity of our community and our differences in background, culture,
-                experience, racial identity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and much
-                more. We actively seek and welcome applications from Black and Indigenous people and people of color;
-                women and non-binary people; the LGBTQ+ community; and people with disabilities; as well as
-                applications from researchers and practitioners from across the
-                spectrum of disciplines, methods, and life experiences.
-              </p>
+                <strong>Room to pursue your research agenda.</strong> We are located at the Harvard Law School Library and share a kitchen with  the Berkman Klein Center and metaLAB. Going to events, having conversations, developing your scholarly perspective, and exploring it through creative projects are encouraged. We will specifically prioritize these things at the cost of shipping the next feature.</p>
+              <p>
+                <strong>Set your own pace.</strong> We are a small, self-directed group that depends on internal motivation rather than externally imposed crunch time.</p>
+              <p>
+                <strong>Build open source.</strong> All of our projects are open source and otherwise designed to maximize the public benefit of our work.</p>
+              <p>
+                <strong>Work on stuff that matters.</strong> The projects we make are measured by how they help people in the long term.</p>
             </div>
           </div>
         </lil-expandable>
@@ -140,7 +127,7 @@ <h3 class="label" id="ediba">Equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging and antirac
       </div>
     </div>
   </section>
-  
+
   <section class="container flex flex-col gap-24 md:gap-40">
     <h2 class="h2">Staff Positions</h2>
     <div class="md:grid md:grid-cols-12">
@@ -201,7 +188,7 @@ <h2 class="h2">Research Positions</h2>
                 <strong>Research Assistants:</strong> We're seeking paid research assistants with a web
                 development background to help us build open source legal
                 tech and civic tech tools
-                like <a href="/projects/perma-cc" class="interactive-link dark reverse">Perma.cc</a>, <a href="/projects/h2o">Opencasebook.org</a>,
+                like <a href="/projects/perma-cc" class="interactive-link dark reverse">Perma.cc</a>, <a href="/projects/h2o>Opencasebook.org" class="interactive-link dark reverse">opencasebook.org</a>,
                 and <a href="/projects/caselaw-access-project" class="interactive-link dark reverse">Case.law</a>.
               </p>
               <p>
@@ -292,7 +279,7 @@ <h2 class="h2">Research Positions</h2>
                   cultural impact of new technologies
                 </li>
               </ul>
-      
+
               <p>
                 <strong>Fellowship details:</strong> Fellowships are individually arranged on a rolling basis,
                 and may be any length from a week to a year. Fellows are

app/projects.html

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ <h2 class="page-hero__subtitle">{{page.subtitle}}</h2>
       <h2 class="h2">Research</h2>
       <div class="md:col-span-2 body-text flex flex-col gap-50 md:pt-24">
         <div class="flex flex-col gap-20 max-w-[700px]">
-          <p>Research at LIL is structured around a variety of modes and outcomes, though it all ultimately serves our goal of fusing the library world with new technologies. We use our research to understand new - or new to us - communities and their extant work around a knowledge challenge; to tackle a particularly thorny and consequential technical problem; or to work with libraries to map the technical possibilities available to them for a particular part of their mission.</p>
+          <p>Research at LIL is structured around a variety of modes and outcomes, though it all ultimately serves our goal of fusing the library world with new technologies.</p>
           <p>Some of our research is explicitly tied to our ongoing tentpole projects, while other explorations may become larger projects down the line.</p>
         </div>
       </div>
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ <h3 class="label">Upcoming</h3>
       <h2 class="h2">Platforms</h2>
       <div class="md:col-span-2 body-text flex flex-col gap-50 md:pt-24">
         <p class="flex flex-col gap-20 max-w-[700px]">
-          Projects are the heart of the Library Innovation Lab. We build things. Our projects attempt to make something — big or small — better, simpler, more transparent, or more fun.
+          Tools are the heart of the Library Innovation Lab. We build things. Our platforms each have their own user base and long term goals.
         </p>
       </div>
     </div>
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ <h2 class="h2">Platforms</h2>
   <section class="flex flex-col gap-18 pb-40 md:pb-140">
     {% assign active_projects = site.projects_active | sort: "order" %}
     {% for project in active_projects %}
-      {% include 
-        project-card.html 
+      {% include
+        project-card.html
         background=project.background_class
         title=project.title
         description=project.description
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ <h2 class="h2">Platforms</h2>
         <h2 class="h2">Past Projects</h2>
         <div class="md:col-span-2 body-text flex flex-col gap-50 md:pt-24">
           <div class="flex flex-col gap-20 max-w-[700px]">
-            <p>At the Library Innovation Lab we are also in pursuit of understanding innovation as a practice.</p>
-            <p>While not exhaustive, these are projects we have worked on, tinkered with, and ultimately sunsetted for various reasons. Each one has taught us a lesson about a particular domain, or piece of software, or community. We share lessons learned from each to be seen as case studies or used as proofs of concept for folks interested in diving deeper.</p>
+            <p>At the Library Innovation Lab we are also in pursuit of understanding exploration as a practice.</p>
+            <p>While not exhaustive, these are projects we have worked on, tinkered with, and ultimately sunsetted for various reasons.</p>
           </div>
         </div>
       </div>