Permanent Links For US Legislation Documents

dizzymslizzy writes "With prompting from the Sunlight Foundation's Open House Project, the US Library of Congress announced today that its online database THOMAS will now generate persistent URLs, known as legislative handles, for legislation documents. As Free Government Info says, 'it is certainly nice to be able to link to legislation with a persistent link! But it would be much better if one could click to create a link rather than following a 600-word description of how to link on another page.' Still, this is a definite step forward for the Library of Congress and for government transparency. From THOMAS: 'Legislative Handles are a new persistent URL service for creating links to legislative documents from the THOMAS web site (http://thomas.loc.gov). With a simple syntax, Legislative Handles make it easy to type in legislative links to bibliographies, reference guides, emails, blogs, or web pages. Legislative Handles, for instance, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.110hconres196, are a convenient way to cite legislation.'

Comments

Re:Look! Another Wheel

[Anonymous Coward]

i call dibs on the first legislative RickRoll.

Re:US Law needs a "Source Code Management" System

[Ortega-Starfire]

Wikipedia for the US congress? Now that could be funny.

Rejected by Supreme court. [Citation needed for proof of constitutionality.]

Repassed congress and house. [It's for the children, damn the constitution.]

Veto by president. [Screw you.]

Veto ruled unconstitutional by judicial review. [Screw you too.]