{
  "id": "1994-june-state-land-records-going-on-cd",
  "slug": "1994-june-state-land-records-going-on-cd",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1994-june-state-land-records-going-on-cd.html",
  "year": 1994,
  "month": "June",
  "monthNum": 6,
  "headline": "State land records going on CD",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "",
  "summary": "The Eastern States Bureau of Land Management is digitizing federal land titles from 13 states onto CD-ROM to preserve historic documents, with a project completion target of 2000 and reported conversion accuracy rates exceeding 99 percent.",
  "keywords": [
    "digitization",
    "preservation",
    "patents"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Data & Databases",
    "Government & Politics",
    "Agriculture & Land"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "CD-ROM"
  ],
  "full_text": "Federal land titles from 13 states are being moved to CD-ROM as part of a project designed to preserve the historic documents, according to a recent article in Government Computer News.\n\nThe task, which the Eastern States Bureau of Land Management expects to complete by the year 2000, involves states west of the Ohio River where the government sold off public land to repay Revolutionary War debts.\n\nSome 260,000 land patents from Alabama are due to be published next month. Arkansas, Florida, and Louisiana have already been completed. Others on the list are: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, and Wisconsin.\n\nThe records have a reported conversion accuracy rate of 99 percent with 99.5 percent index accuracy.",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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  "html_url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1994-june-state-land-records-going-on-cd.html",
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