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
