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Saved by Silona Bonewald
on April 29, 2009 at 7:47:39 am

WHAT

Asking Government to create advanced permalinks on a paragraph level to all public government documents

WHY

To make Government more accessible to the average citizen.

To make it easy to create citations on blogs and sites like wikipedia that do not break over time.

To make issues easily searchable with a unique identifier.

So that we can aggregate pro and con responses on an issue.

Currently, many government documents are provided only in PDF format, which makes it impossible to link to a specific page or paragraph.

HOW

It is pretty simple, actually.

A human readable URL that includes:

Domain Name / (path is necessary) /Document Name / DateTime stamp / and a heirarchical path to the paragraph

You can add a Path to document if needed to be unique but must be human readable.

The Heirarchical path should degrade nicely to point to larger and larger portions of the document (like an entire paragraph or chapter.)

For example:

Http://senate.gov/HR1586IH/03182009-2330/HR1586S1b1Bii

which would point to this clause

" $250,000 ($125,000 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return)."

in the March 18, 2009 version of the Bill HR 1586

Section 1, subsection b, chapter 1, paragraph B, clause ii

WHEN

We are fund-raising to both hire programmers to write the tools and to have codeathons where programers donate their time to write Open Source tools they believe in.

We are recruiting different levels of government implementation one agency at a time. Your support on http://citability.org will illistrate the demand.

We are asking various propertary software vendors to implement this standard in their software products.

WHERE

Http://citability.org - sign up and show your support

http://citability.pbworks.com - to help promote or to feedback on the internal standards we are suggesting. We are talking various implementations in different software to backups and server failover settings.

Specific to RECOVERY.GOV

Recovery.gov is done in Drupal. All websites that are done in CMS's generate "pretty" urls. We would take advantage of that to create these "beautiful" URLs. Our Drupal experts tells us the cost is insignificant (>50k) and it would help many nongovernmental websites as well to become web citable because Drupal is Open Source and all updates can be shared!

Visit http://citability.pbworks.com/Drupal to see our notes on a Drupal implementation for this concept.