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A fully-searchable and accessible archive of court data including growing repositories of opinions, oral arguments, judges, judicial financial records, and federal filings.
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DocumentCloud integration #740

Open anseljh opened 6 years ago

anseljh commented 6 years ago

DocumentCloud has a nice-looking API, which of course includes an upload method.

It would be cool if journalists researching a story on CourtListener/RECAP could connect their DocumentCloud account, and an "Upload to DocumentCloud" button would appear.

I am going to talk to some journalists and learn more about how they use DocumentCloud & similar tools.

johnhawkinson commented 6 years ago

I tend to think it varies. If a court document had just come out and was timely but maybe not worth an article in its own right, historically I would tend to tweet the archive.org link and a screenshot with some context for the document.

But I would use DocumentCloud if the RECAP/IA pipeline was jammed up and the doc did not show up there in a reasonable period of time.

Or, of course, if there was an article (some hours or days later, usually) and it made more sense to use the DocumentCloud presentation rather than a PDF hosted elsewhere.

I think the calculus may have changed a bit now, and there's more desire to use DocumentCloud as the go-to location. And http://twitter.com/big_cases is an example of that (which sadly ignores RECAP/courtlistener/IA). Having twitter cards helps, too.

mlissner commented 6 years ago

I think if we did this, the easy way would be to just use a FLP account for it, but I know some reporters might prefer having it under their account. Otherwise, the hard part of this would be doing the OAuth API dance, which would require some tricky bits. I'll be curious what other feedback you hear, @anseljh.

anseljh commented 6 years ago

I think all journalists would want the docs uploaded to their own DC account, so they can control them and collect them with their other documents for their stories. I think collecting them in a CL DC account would be a non-starter. I will report back after talking to some journalists!

mlissner commented 6 years ago

But it's so much easier!