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On 6/9/22 21:02, Brian Erickson wrote:
> I am developing a module for interacting with the United States PACER
> (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) API. PACER is a US government
> service that provides access to over one billion documents relating to
> cases that were, or are being, tried before US district courts, US court of
> appeals, or US bankruptcy courts.
>
> https://pacer.uscourts.gov/about-us
>
> While the PACER API enables relatively easy access to the service, a module
> in CPAN would increase accessibility. Increasing public access to court
> records could result in unforeseen good. There are several Python projects
> on GitHub.com for interfacing with PACER.
>
> Before I started developing this module, I searched CPAN for existing code
> but found nothing relevant. I've found modules for getting US Census,
> Postal Service, as well as Treasury Department's OFAC (Office of Foreign
> Assets Control) data but nothing related to the judicial system of any
> country.
>
> Any suggestions for an appropriate package name? I was thinking perhaps
> Court::US::PACER or USCourt::PACER.
>
> I appreciate any and all comments.
>
> -Brian Erickson
It appears that 'WWW' is the appropriate top-level CPAN name for Perl
distributions that provide programmatic interfaces to web servers:
https://metacpan.org/search?q=www
(It also appears that those authors stripped the TLDN from the target
server FQDN when naming their distributions. That may have seemed okay
30 years ago, but I would advise against it today.)
'WWW' followed by the reverse fully-qualified domain name of the server
would make sense to me:
WWW::Gov::USCourts::PACER
David
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