CITABILITY
making 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