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: Slaw.caRECAP: Crowdsourcing U.S. Federal Court Transparency
Back in July I talked about a petition urging to improve PACER, the online access service to U.S. court records and documents. Until improvements are made, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard have stepped in to provide a tool to give open access to court documents that originate on PACER in cooperation with the Internet Archive. The video below is a presentation by Steve Schultze, fellow of the Berkman Center and new Associate Director at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy at the September 8, 2009 conference Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase explaining how the tool RECAP (a Firefox extension) works:

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).
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"RECAP: Crowdsourcing U.S. Federal Court Transparency"
Benefits of Crowdsourcing Projects for Libraries
RECAP Already Proving Its Power
Federal Courts' More Constructive Response to RECAP
After Security Warnings, a Recap on RECAP
Improving Federal Grantmaking Transparency
Crowdsourcing, the Power of Many to Achieve Better Results than the Few
RECAP the Law and Privacy Concerns
Free Access to Documents Stirs Up Court Administrators
Crowdsourcing a Copyright Submission on Crown Copyright










