[IP] Computing Technology Policy Bibliography

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 15:01:45 -0700
From: Bob Ellis <ellisb-m@..>
Subject: Re: Computing Technology Policy Bibliography
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>

For the last couple of years I have been saving copies of articles I
read on computing technology policy as plain text.  There is a
bibliography of these articles available on line at:

http://home.ix.netcom.com/~technology_policy/

Let me know if you find it useful and/or how it could be improved.

Bob

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The bibliography covers the popular press and computing magazines, but
not research or scholarly publications.  The ACM Digital Library is the
best source for the latter.

Why provide this bibliography when a more complete and less
idiosyncratic search could be done with a search engine such as Google?
 Using this bibliography has several advantages: categorization into a
taxonomy that groups like articles together, a chronological
presentation and a selective number of hits.  Entries in this
bibliography could then be used to generate a more complete search with
a search engine.

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The bibliography is divided into several categories (see below), each a
separate page.  The format for each category page is a directory:

Directory: Science Policy

02-06-14-WashPost-MITPreservesOpeness.txt
02-08-07-Wired-CongressReassessesOTA.txt

followed by the citation entries themselves:

==========> 02-06-14-WashPost-MITPreservesOpeness.txt==========

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48389-2002Jun13.html

MIT Seeks to Preserve Openness Amid Security Measures
By Michael A. Fletcher
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 14, 2002; Page A06

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has become the first major
academic research institution to outline a policy designed to
protect intellectual openness on campus amid growing pressure to


==========> 02-08-07-Wired-CongressReassessesOTA.txt==========

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54373,00.html

Congress Reassesses Tech Office
By Dan Mitchell
2:00 a.m. Aug. 7, 2002 PDT

WASHINGTON -- When former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the
Republicans cut
off funding for the Office of Technology Assessment in 1995, the move seemed
capricious to scientists who felt the office did nothing less than help
legislators make informed decisions.

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It would be convenient if the directory entries were links to each
citation entry, but to save space and download times, the actual
bibliography pages are plain text with no formatting or other
information in them.  The user can of course paste directory entries
into the browser search function and move to citation entries that way.
 Perhaps in the future the pages will be HTML formatted and include
features such as internal links.

Directory entries consist of a date (yy-mm-dd) followed by a title.  The
title is not necessarily the title of the article but has been chosen to
be concise and descriptive.

The bibliographic entry starts with the directory entry, usually the
URL, citation information and the first 2-3 lines of the article.  Due
to copyright restrictions we cannot provide the full text of cited articles.

The categories include:

Access
Cryptography
Digital Copy Protection - Digital Rights Management
E - Commerce
E - Voting
Free Speech
General
Intellectual Property
Internet
Miscellaneous
Privacy
Research Support
Science Policy
Security
Spam
Telecommunications
TV Computer Graphics Convergence
USACM - Information and Washington Update




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