As the research of the Harvard Transparency Policy Project has made abundantly clear, applying the principles of openness and transparency to complex systems demands a careful approach to epistemic nuances; questions like what should be knowable to whom need to be answered before disclosure requirements are implemented, and need to be built into a disclosure […]
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Transparency in Healthcare and Scientific Research
February 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: OpenHouse · harvard · legal research · nih · nsf · preservation
Reading Notes on The Documentation of Congress
January 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
After going through the trouble of obtaining and digitizing the 1992 report on congressional documentation, I’ve started going systematically through the document, and, in an attempt to read more closely, have been taking notes. This is a long post, but the parallels with the Open House Project are startling to me, as are the contrasts: […]
Tags: CLA · Member Web Sites · NARA · OpenHouse · government websites · jurisdiction · legal research · library of congress · lobbying · lobbying disclosure · ota · preservation · senate · spub 102-20
Speech or Debate Clause II: Staff Confidently Engaging
September 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments
A few days ago, I wrote a post about the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution.
My basic point was that members of Congress have certain privileges granted by the Constitution, giving them freedom from legal action relating to their legislative duties. Congress members aren’t above the law, so only legislative acts qualify as […]
Tags: Congress · House of Representatives · OpenHouse · committees · government websites · legal research · speech or debate
Nokia, Ontology, and Legal Research
September 3rd, 2007 · 3 Comments
Among my favorite blogs lately has been Future Perfect, apparently a Nokia researcher’s personal brainstorming repository. I enjoy it so much because it reminds me of how I take notes, through either practical categorization or an off-the-cuff to-be-revisited kind of personalized conceptual banter that “Future Perfect” offers frequently. I find this refreshing because […]
Tags: OpenHouse · corruption · legal research · nokia · ontology
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