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June 27, 2007
LOUISdb.org
The Sunlight Foundation is creating a search engine (LOUISdb.org, which is in its Beta Release) for searching for federal documents from the executive and legislative branches of government. LOUISdb.org stands for the Library Of Unified Information Sources.
This is what they have to say about LOUISdb.org:
LOUIS currently contains, in fully searchable format, seven sets of federal documents:
Congressional Reports
Congressional Record
Congressional Hearings
Federal Register
Presidential Documents
GAO Reports
Congressional Bills & Resolutions
In addition, LOUIS delivers these federal documents in an electronic, printable, text format for easier use. LOUIS also lets you access all the pages of a debate in the Congressional Record - or any other document - in one printer-friendly Web page.
You can search broadly for keywords or limit searches to a single document set or range of dates. LOUIS, which daily updates its document depository, even allows you to set up a "standing query" as an RSS feed. LOUIS can alert you every time there is a new document that references your query. For example, if you want to follow "lobbying reform," and Senators debate the lobbying reform measures of an ethics bill, the LOUIS notifier feed will send an update with a link to the relevant transcript from the Congressional Record.
Click here to go to LOUISdb.org.
Posted by d-nadler at June 27, 2007 08:51 PM