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Purchase of Public Data
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:02:21 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Carl Malamud <carl () media org> Date: September 17, 2008 5:00:27 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Purchase of Public Data Hi Dave -With a little help from our friends at Sunlight Foundation, Omidyar Network, GovTrack.US, Stanford University Libraries, and Google, we just sent the Public Printer of the United States a check for $17,325 to purchase the bulk (SGML, text + images) version of the Code of Federal Regulations.
We've also proposed that they should release all of their bulk "products" to us since the marginal cost of distribution would be $0 and they have already been paid by Congress to create these key government documents.
http://public.resource.org/gpo.gov/index.html Best regards, Carl ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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