New Mobile Resources From the State Department, NLM, and USDA
Here are links from INFOdocket. New State Department"Smart Traveler"iPhone App Available http://infodocket.com/2011/06/14/new-state-department-iphone-app-available/ Travel info. iPhone app; Free. "Digitized Medical Books: National Library of Medicine Releases “Turning the Pages” iPad App" http://infodocket.com/2011/06/16/digitized-medical-books-national-library-of-medicine-releases-turning-the-pages-ipad-app/ iPhone app; Free "Food Safety Questions? USDA Releases Mobile Version of “Ask Karen” Virtual Assistant" http://infodocket.com/2011/06/14/food-safety-questions-usda-releases-mobile-version-of-ask-karen-virtual-assistant/ Mobile Web; FREE Continue reading
“U.S. Congress/NARA: “National Archives May Digitize Searches”
Via INFOdocket Roll Call reports: The National Archives could be just months away from starting a long-planned project to create for the first time a searchable digital log of the archives of Congress. The project, which had been discussed for about six years, would essentially catalog Congressional records dating back to 1789 and create a database where researchers could search for specific topics. Though it wouldn't digitize the records themselves, the database would point researchers to places within the expansive records where that topic is discussed. "The idea is to take those various sources ... and to make it a state-of-the-art finding aid," Senate Archivist Karen Paul said. + Final Plan Approved Yesterday + Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, expressed concerned over the cost + Cost Estimate Should Be Provided in Six Months + Size? 500 Million Pages (200,000 Cubic Feet of Records) + Expected To Take Five Years to Complete Read the Full Text Article Continue reading
Searching More Than 24K Pages of Email Messages From Sarah Palin Administration
The archived email messages were released earlier today and are now beginning to roll out into searchable databases and/or PDF files. Scanned pages are being added to databases as they become available. Many news organization are asking the public for assistance in reviewing all of the pages. Yet another example of crowdsourcing government records. Here are three of several source provin 1. NY Times Search NY Times: Palin E-Mail Search http://projects.nytimes.com/palin-emails/date/2008-08-01 2. MSNBC/Mother Jones/ProPublica Search: MSNBC/Mother Jones/ProPublica http://palinemail.msnbc.msn.com/ Updates at @openchannelblog and #palinemail MSNBC Live Blog With Additional Information as it Becomes Available. Also, info about documents being withheld. http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/10/6825771-heres-your-live-blog-for-the-palin-email-release-the-first-emails-are-online-now Background from Bill Dedman at MSNBC http://msnbc.msn.com/id/43281157/ns/politics-more_politics/ 3. Washington Post PDF Files of Raw Email Messages (#1) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/palin-emails/pdf/Dec42006-Feb202007.pdf Additional Material http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/sarah-palin-emails/post/for-micro-updates-check-atpalinemails-palinemails/2011/06/10/AGPwBuOH_blog.html#pagebreak Continue reading
A Bit of New Info About Library of Congress/Twitter Archive
Boulder, CO based Gnip has announced they're working with LC and Twitter to deliver tweets to the archive. During the past six months Gnip has been delivering 8 billion tweets each week to LC. Gnip is in the real time social media biz for enterprise customers. Much more info at: http://infodocket.com/2011/06/09/news-about-lcs-twitter-archive-gnip-will-work-with-both-organizations-to-provide-access-to-tweets/ Continue reading
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