{"id":2727,"date":"2012-08-09T12:51:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T16:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2013-03-29T22:52:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T02:52:58","slug":"digitize-it-all-from-law-to-code-and-standard-for-public-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2012\/08\/09\/digitize-it-all-from-law-to-code-and-standard-for-public-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitize it all: from law to code and standard, for public justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t visited law.resource.org<\/a> recently, do so now. I’ll wait… you are in for a treat. <\/p>\n

Carl Malamud and Friends (soon to be a show on CNN) have kept up the momentum of their early work to digitize and publish technical and other standards, many of which are now online in all their glory.<\/p>\n

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And there’s a lovely collection of introductions, from the 5-minute summary of why and how to free building codes<\/a>, to a 20-minute showcase of what the resource.org team does<\/a>. (via boingboing<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

This is still rather top-down for my tastes — there’s no obvious way for me to help out, fund the digitization of a particular code, or run a digitizing party in my neighborhood library or FabLab. But I am inspired by the persistent work and vision of the people making this dream a reality. <\/p>\n

They also have a lovely site devoted to a national scanning project for scanning all the archives: YesWeScan<\/a>. Which gave rise to this excellent blog post and commentary<\/a> from the Archivist of the US, David Ferriero*. <\/p>\n

* Recently seen at Wikimania DC saying, in his beautiful closing speech, “If you have any trouble using Wikipedia… tell them, if it’s good enough for the Archivist of the US…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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