Re: Fellow Pacer Downloader

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

Hi Adria -

Can you give me a URL of where you have the tarball?  Happy to grab it  
and look at the docs and see if we can integrate into the distribution.

The thing we'd like to see happen is for people to start adopting a  
district court, starting with our tarballs or other sources, and set  
themselves up in the business of being the definitive repository for  
that court.  I think that's better than relying on a single site like  
resource.org to be the ultimate legal system.  Distribution is  
definitely the answer here.

Best regards,

Carl

On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> Hi, Adria. Let me introduce you to Carl Malamud, who runs resource.org
>
> Carl, Adria has 7000 PACER documents she'd like to contribute.
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Adria H <xxxxxxx@ymail.com> wrote:
> > FTP, since it's more than 5GB.
> >
> > I just went to resource.org - under the pacer folder, there isn't a  
> > folder
> > created for bankruptcy court. These are all bankruptcy court docs.  
> > Would you
> > create a new folder for bankruptcy courts?
> >
> > Not wanting to sound too cautious, but are there still  
> > investigations of
> > resource.org ongoing?
> >
> > Do you have plans to improve the search capabilities for  
> > resource.org? Seems
> > like one can use Goog site search or write a script, but for true  
> > "public
> > access" to legal docs, a user-friendly search platform is key (I'll  
> > like
> > normal people besides Stanford geeks like me to use resource.org).  
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Adria
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
> > To: Adria H <xxxxxxx@ymail.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:29:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: Fellow Pacer Downloader
> >
> > > I read the NY Times article about your efforts regarding Pacer  
> > > downloads.
> > > I
> > > have downloaded more than 7,000 documents from Pacer using the  
> > > designated
> > > libraries (until they were suspended). It's nothing compared to  
> > > your feat.
> > > Anyway, do you have a website or platform for putting these  
> > > documents
> > > (which
> > > is now cleared by Legal)?
> >
> > That's great. Yes, the documents are being published on resource.org.
> > What's a convenient mechanism for you to send them?