Re: pacer program

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

Tim Stanley (who drains pacer at Justia on a proxy basis) and John  
Joergensen (librarian at Rutgers who is organizing the court reporters  
on the east coast), please meet two very talented new recruits,  
certified MIT rocket scientists.  ;)

Aaron and Stephen have decided to adopt a local district court and  
then take advantage of the local pacer "public" trial to  
systematically grab all opinions for their jurisdiction and then put  
them on bulk.resource.org.  I've given Aaron an account.  Once we have  
an archive of their data, we'll scrub it for SSNs, then figure out how  
to inform the chief judge that we have his data available if he wants  
it.

Tim, can you review sample docs that they harvest?  John, I wanted to  
make you aware we have a couple ringers helping kick this off.  Both  
these guys are highly clueful.  I've asked them to a) turn on the  
magic pacer header on the top of the pdf and b) embed the information  
we need for a unique id in the metadata for the pdf file.

Carl

On Sep 6, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> Can you introduce us to Tim Stanley? Schultze is trying to figure out
> which cases to focus on with his Thumb Drive Corps members and is
> looking at the list of case names in Justia and wondering how it was
> generated. Perhaps Tim can also review some sample output and make
> sure we're getting the right stuff.