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PACER - RECAP

In an effort to jiggle loose the Justice Department's Pacer database, programmers from Harvard, Princeton and the Internet Archive have provided a Firefox Plug-in called RECAP (that's PACER spelled backwards). It tests the search you run in PACER against a database of already-retrieved documents that have been donated to a free "shadow" PACER database, RECAP. If the document you want exists in RECAP, you get it for free. Yay!

If the document isn't already in the free database, sadly, you have to pay. But, you get to be a hero and donate it to the RECAP database so the next person will get it for free.

Here are two stories about RECAP:

Wired and Reason

Tip of the OOTJ hat to Michael Lynch.

Full post as published by Out of the Jungle on August 25, 2009 (boomark / email).