Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.org announces a plan to digitize a *lot* (60 Million pages) of your government documents held at the Boston Public Library. The project, with support of Archive.org and the Library, is funded in part by a challenge grant from the Omidyar Network and the Kahle-Austin Foundation fund.
See also John Markoff‘s NYTimes story (here).
(Note: ibiblio.org supports Public.Resource.org’s distributions with our Osprey Bittorrent service)
It would be great to see local governments do this too.
Good idea! Why not get started on it? I think that Mark Peters has been trying to do something similar for county commissioners meetings.
Yes see http://www.orangerecordings.org/
Chapel Hill Town Council is streaming and archiving its meetings. It’s just that you can’t get them on a Mac very easily, or possibly at all.