From Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington:
Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), in conjunction with a coalition of government watchdog groups, launched a new online government document database, governmentdocs.org, at a tele-news conference.
The database will house Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) responses, and other government documents, from a number of organizations, that can be browsed, searched and reviewed. It is the only one of its kind. . .
• Each and every document goes through an optical character recognition (OCR) process, so that the text of each document is entirely searchable.
• A powerful search engine provides full-text searches and hit highlighting.
• Citizen reviewers can add information to each document page and highlight important findings, allowing for more robust and targeted searches.
• Every page of every document has its own unique URL so that documents can be linked, shared, or posted onto websites.
• The database is a coalition effort, so all of the organizations’ documents will be housed on governmentdocs.org and searches will work across collections.