Chouinard claims steady progress and credits a combination of growing trust in the community and aggressive clinic outreach using an electronic record database brought online with the help of federal grant money.

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The Maori Land Court has also created electronic copies within its database, the Maori Land Information System for the public to use at Maori Land Court registries.

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Guez's art draws heavily on the Christian Palestinian Archive, an electronic database he started that catalogs photographs, passports, birth certificates and other documents from the community's history.

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You can get the information yourself online, from the SEC's Edgar database, if you don't mind slogging through a haystack of electronic paperwork to find the needle.

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Meanwhile, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is already raising concerns about innocent civilians being mixed up or included in the database.

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Pattern analysis -- the heart of data mining -- is conventional crime-solving, whether the suspicious patterns are spotted on a crime pin map, on a city street, or in an electronic database.

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