Is it much worse than the disclaimers on the front page of say, any
commercially produced statute annotated book? There's always the
possiblility of error in any medium,IMHO.
Karen Mahnk
At 05:47 AM 11/3/1999 -0800, Andy Grossman wrote:
>The question is interesting, but peripheral. Much
>government information is found at *.mil and *.org and
>*.us extensions. And it may be hard to assess the
>quality of contracted-out work when you are unaware of
>the contracting out. Note that the Canadian statute
>site (accessible from www.droit.umontreal.ca) warns
>that the Web version is for convenience only and that
>only the printed version is definitive. Which gets us
>back to the matter of the "definitive" source of laws
>that have not been re-enacted in codified form and,
>for foreign laws, the matter of official gazettes vs.
>session laws and compilations. Web sites would seem to
>have less credibility than any of those, no matter by
>whom created, in view of the possibility of hacking.
>Not be ruled out even at a *.gov site.
>
>Andy Grossman
>University College London, SLAIS
>
>
>
>--- Troy Johnson <Troy.Johnson@valpo.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I am teaching a class dealing with assessing the
>> quality of
>> legal information that is found on the web. I have
>> always
>> taught that looking at the .gov extension was one
>> thing to
>> look at when assessing the source of the
>> information.
>>
>> For example, you are looking for the Alaska Code. At
>> the
>> site www.alaska.gov you find the Alaskan code and
>> the page
>> says this is an official page and the code is up to
>> date.
>> Well of course, anyone can create a page that says
>> they are
>> the official site so looking at the url is one piece
>> of
>> evidence to determine the source of the information.
>> If you
>> were searching for the Alaska code and you found an
>> official site at the address
>> www.geoworldnet.com/~doug you
>> would be more likely to question the source of the
>> information.
>>
>> What I am hoping to find out is how hard is it to
>> register
>> for a domain name with a .gov extension. How much
>> reliance
>> would you put in the .gov extension? I know that
>> there are
>> many librarians on this list that work for
>> governmental
>> units, if you have had the experience of registering
>> a .gov
>> domain name I would be interested in the process
>> that was
>> needed to get the domain name.
>>
>> I have gone to web sites (including Internic) that
>> register
>> domain names and they only seem to be giving out
>> .com,
>> .org, and .net extensions. This would seem to
>> indicate that
>> not anyone can sign up for a .gov but if you have
>> differing
>> info I would love to here it.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>-------------------------------------------------------
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>> Library
>> Public Services Librarian Valparaiso
>> University
>> 656 S. Greenwich St. Valparaiso, IN
>> 46383
>> 219 465-7820 219 465-7917 (fax)
>>
>> email: Troy.Johnson@valpo.edu
>>
>>
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