Citability.org - Making Govt documentation web citable to a paragraph level 

WHAT

Asking Government to create advanced permalinks on a paragraph level to all public government documents and websites

HOW

It is pretty simple, actually.

A human readable URL that includes:

Domain Name / (path if necessary to be unique) /Document Name / DateTime stamp / and a hierarchical path to the paragraph

You can add a Path to document if needed to be unique but must be human readable.

The Hierarchical path should degrade nicely to point to larger and larger portions of the document (like an entire paragraph or chapter.)

For example:

Http://senate.gov/HR1586IH/03182009-2330#HR1586S1b1Bii

which would point to this clause

" $250,000 ($125,000 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return)."

in the March 18, 2009 version of the Bill HR 1586

Section 1, subsection b, chapter 1, paragraph B, clause ii

WHEN

We are recruiting different levels of government implementation one agency at a time. Recovery.gov's support on http://citability.org will illustrate the demand and be a brave sign of leadership.

We are asking various proprietary software vendors to implement this standard in their software products.

WHERE

Http://citability.org - where we rally support for the concept

http://citability.pbworks.com - to help promote feedback on the internal standards we are suggesting. And inspire participation in creating various implementations in different software to backups and server failover settings.