Our use of PGP signatures is a species of guarantee regarding the accuracy of what we have put on our site. The digital signature files are created using PGP at the point where we receive the documents in question. If the file is subsequently altered in any way, the altered file will not generate the same PGP signature, and thus a comparison of the two signatures will show that the altered file has been altered. You are doubtless thinking that all this would be scads more useful if the court were to create the signatures prior to transmission. We use a small script to translate US Reports cites into actual document locations on the Net.
Users can also enter preferences about which collection to use.
In other words, the search engine takes the volume and page number of the US Reports cite as input and returns a choice of locations for the case. Note that this only works with US Reports cites, which are not typically assigned to an opinion for eighteen months or more after the bench opinion is handed down. Accessing full-text information via Z39.50 Our search engines are set up using the Isite system . One side benefit of Isite is that it's easy for us to make the databases available for search via Z39.50 clients , and to offer ourselves for integration with other Z39.50 systems such as OPACs. If you set up such a system we'd be interested in hearing from you .