silonas citability

CITABILITYmaking government accessible, reliable, and transparent with advanced

permalinks

Citation

permanence

abbreviated

atomic

open

Accountability

date time stamp

hashes (on longer term fix else we monitor)

link rot

Accessibility

standard makes it parseable

anything a computer reads and understands -> blind can too!

Easy of Use

human readable

Example: Http://archive.house.gov/HR1586IH/20030318093016#S1b1Bii

The example would point to section 1, subsection b, chapter 1, paragraph B, clause ii in SB 1234 on Mar 18, 2003 at 09:30:16 am UTC

Degradable

Http://archive.senate.gov/HR1586IH/20030318233035#S1b1Bii

as you chop off the ends... The link becomes more general

Http://archive.senate.gov/HR1586IH/20030318233035#S1 -> points to Section 1

Http://archive.senate.gov/HR1586IH/ -> points to current copy of Bill

Unique

Unique ID makes the internet into a database

Verifiable

Searchable on identifier

Date Time Stamp

makes citations VALID

fights link rot

makes the internet into Database for a Versioning System

Atomic

Several hundred page documents that change frequently

documentation requires things be citable on a paragraph level just like BOOKS

intellectual honesty

public can watch changes

Reputation

the website becomes accountable for what it publishes

Open

WestLaw problem

Lexus nexus problem

Open to Everyone - anyone w a free blog account can converse

Websites

alpha-numeric in background

table of contents

Purple numbers

doesn’t matter just needs to be on paragraph basis (even just count <p> tags!)

How

drupal ->

already does pretty URLs (most CMS do)

quickfix ->

2 lines of javascript

one DNS redirect for archive.house.gove

archive server scrapes and formats

Next step

Drupal Codeathon in Paris

fundraise 25K to have archive server software created for archive.org