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What's new?
The list is long but overall the site has been completely rearchitected to deal with all the information we would like to share.
1. Audio is now accessible from the home page or any page where we have planted an audio link.
2. New player for controlled playback (play, pause, stop) including synchronized transcripts when these are available.
3. More audio: virtually all SCOTUS audio from the 1990 Term through the 2004 Term is now accessible. We will provide a downloadable MP3 as well as a streamed MP3. As older and newer audio becomes available, we will add it to the site.
4. MP3 downloads will include the transcript of the argument in the lyrics tag visible in iTunes.
5. High quality images of the justices, both photographs and portraits. (Portraits are formal commissions and are made public when justices are no longer on the bench.)
6. Images of all justice groups. These group photographs date back to the 1860s.
7. Improved voting data. We will report voting details in every case back to 1953. Votes will be displayed using headshots of the justices. Active images will signal voting with the majority. Greyscale/washout will signal voting with the minority. You can sort the votes by seniority (the default setting) or by ideology. The ideological array is based on the Martin-Quinn index computed each Term back to 1937. The index arrays the justices from most liberal (on the left) to most conservative (on the right).
8. Additional non-SCOTUS audio and video. We shall provide access to 14 hours of interviews with Justice William O. Douglas. The interviews were conducted by Professor Walter E. Murphy of Princeton University while Douglas was still on the bench. We shall provide access to the nearly 40 hours of Justice Harry A. Blackmun's oral history. In each circumstance, the audio/video will be synchronized to a text transcript, facilitating searching and playback. (Both coming soon.)
9. Much improved search of all items.
10. RSS for searches and podcasts. Use this in your feedreader to stay up-to-date on new content.
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PLEASE NOTE: When we go live with the full release, links to the current OYEZ site may no longer work. We will attempt to provide a cross-walk from the old site to the new site, but in many circumstances these links will no longer be valid. We shall do our best to limit the fallout from this switch.
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We very much welcome your comments/suggestions/praise/criticisms. This is especially important between September 1 and September 15. You can send your comments to: beta@oyez.org
For the entire Oyez5 Team,
Jerry Goldman
2 comments:
I want the justice line-up for cases earlier, in the Hughes Court, why you guys are not displaying them?????????
I cannot seem to raise any of your pages/cases through the Google search engine. Instead, I have to refresh an earlier page I raised, then use your site's search engine. What am I doing wrong?
Otherwise, this site is a GREAT resource, thanks!
A 3L (who still can't believe it!)
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