Collaborative annotations and discussions at FedThread.org

Yesterday, a new way of interacting with the Federal Register of the U.S.A. was released at FedThread.org.

The Federal Register is “[t]he official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.” It’s published by the U.S. government, five days a week. The Federal Register tells citizens what their government is doing, in a lot more detail than the news media do.

FedThread makes the Federal Register more open and accessible. FedThread gives users:

• Collaborative annotation: users can attach a note to any paragraph of the Federal Register; a conversation thread hangs off of every paragraph.
• Advanced search: users can search the Federal Register (going back to 2000) on full text, by date, agency, and other fields.
• Customized feeds: any search can be turned into an RSS feed. The resulting feed will include any new items that match the search query. Feeds can be delivered by email as well.

Via: PrivacyDigest.com

Tags: annotation, collaboration, comment, discussion, initiative

Author: Germán Toro del Valle, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
Posted on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 at 12:01 pm,
Categories: Related initiatives.
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