[Prodev] Compilation of New Electronic Legislative
Histories
Ruth Levor
rlevor@sandiego.edu
Fri, 05 Oct 2001 09:31:32 -0700
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This sounds like an excellent project to pursue under the AALL
Research Agenda funding!!
At 11:51 AM 10/5/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I am interested in hearing from anyone with ideas for compiling future
>legislative histories from electronic documents (i.e. histories from the
>current Congress).
>
>With so many documents now available in PDF format I have been thinking
>that in the future it would be nice to compile a legislative history using
>these electronic documents and tie it with a search engine which could
>search all the documents simultaneously.
>
>I haven't attempted this yet, but what I envision is something created in
>html. The history would be a descriptive table of contents (just like a
>print history), but every item in the table of contents would be linked to
>the document. Such a history could be placed on an intranet page or a
>CD-ROM. To make the history more valuable it would be great to have a
>search engine that could search all the documents (not sure how to do that
>part).
>
>Any other ideas or thoughts?
>
>
>
>
>Susan Pries
>Assistant Librarian
>Van Ness Feldman, P.C.
>Library, 6th Floor
>1050 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW
>Washington, DC 20007
>(202) 298-1901
>smp@vnf.com
>
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Ruth L.
<mailto:%2F%2Frlevor@sandiego.edu>rlevor@sandiego.edu
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sounds like an excellent project to pursue under the AALL Research Agenda
funding!!<br>
<br>
At 11:51 AM 10/5/2001 -0400, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>I am interested in hearing from anyone with
ideas for compiling future legislative histories from electronic
documents (i.e. histories from the current Congress).<br>
<br>
With so many documents now available in PDF format I have been thinking
that in the future it would be nice to compile a legislative history
using these electronic documents and tie it with a search engine which
could search all the documents simultaneously.<br>
<br>
I haven't attempted this yet, but what I envision is something created in
html. The history would be a descriptive table of contents (just
like a print history), but every item in the table of contents would be
linked to the document. Such a history could be placed on an
intranet page or a CD-ROM. To make the history more valuable it
would be great to have a search engine that could search all the
documents (not sure how to do that part).<br>
<br>
Any other ideas or thoughts?<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Susan Pries<br>
Assistant Librarian<br>
Van Ness Feldman, P.C.<br>
Library, 6th Floor<br>
1050 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW<br>
Washington, DC 20007<br>
(202) 298-1901<br>
smp@vnf.com<br>
<br>
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