this is a work in progress - PLEASE send commentary to me on it (I mainly posted it to share!)

1. CITABILITY
making government accessible, reliable, and transparent with advanced
permalinks

2. Citation
permanence
abbreviated
atomic
open

3. Accountability
date time stamp
hashes (on longer term fix else we monitor)
link rot

4. Accessibility
standard makes it parseable
anything a computer reads and understands -> blind can too!

5. 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

6. 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

7. Unique
Unique ID makes the internet into a database
Verifiable
Searchable on identifier

8. Date Time Stamp
makes citations VALID
fights link rot
makes the internet into Database for a Versioning System

9. Atomic
Several hundred page documents that change frequently
documentation requires things be citable on a paragraph level
just like BOOKS

10. intellectual honesty
public can watch changes

11. Reputation
the website becomes accountable for what it publishes

12. Open
WestLaw problem
Lexus nexus problem
Open to Everyone - anyone w a free blog account can converse

13. 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!)

14. 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

15. Next step
Drupal Codeathon in Paris
fundraise 25K to have archive server software created for
archive.org