Federal Reporter, First Series

	Public.Resource.Org is pleased to acknowledge the
contribution by the Law Library Microform Consortium of a
complete set of the Federal Reporter, First Series as 300
dpi scans.  LLMC is a non-profit cooperative of libraries
dedicated to the twin goals of, preserving legal titles and
government documents on film, while making copies
inexpensively available either in microfiche format or
digitally through its on-line service LLMC-Digital. LLMC
provides libraries with a reliable and budget-friendly
source of film and/or digital replacement when their older,
physically deteriorating books became too burdensome to
store given diminished use. While aiding libraries in their
preservation and space recovery programs, it also provides
an economical way to complete retrospective collections. 
The contribution of scans of F1 is made without restriction
on use.

	Scans were received as a series of TIFF images.  In this
distribution, we make the data available in 3 forms:

	1. For each volume, a searchable PDF file of all pages
is made available at the top level directory.  For example:

	http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F1/0001.f1.pdf

	2. For each volume, a subdirectory called "001" contains
all the raw TIFF files we originally received from LLMC.  In
addition, this directory contains .txt files, which are the
output of the open source OCR tool Tesseract.  There is also
an md5 file created by LLMC.  For example:

	http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F1/0001/001

	3. For the first 92 volumes, an experimental
slicer/dicer has been created which takes the output of the
Table of Cases from Tesseract and produces one file for each
case.  For example:

	http://bulk.resource.org/courts/gov/c/F1/0001/

	As always, we support rsync, FTP, and BitTorrent as well
as HTTP.  

	If you are mirroring all the data, get *.pdf, *.tiff.tgz,
and *.pdfs.tgz.

	All data presented here are public domain.  (Note that
only volumes 1-281 are made available at this time.  Volumes
282-300 are not yet in the public domain for release as
scans.)