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GPO To Digitize The Federal Register 1936-1994
Press Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 14, 2015 No. 15-20 GPO TO DIGITIZE TWO MILLION PAGES OF THE FEDERAL REGISTER WASHINGTON – The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) partners with the National Archives’ Office of the Federal Register (OFR) to make every issue of the Federal Register digitally available to the public. A total of […]
Tell the FCC what you think about its website
The Federal Communications Commission has a prototype of a new version of its website and is soliciting comments: Your Feedback is Building a Better FCC.gov, by: Dr. David A. Bray, FCC CIO, Official FCC Blog (October 9, 2015 – 11:00 AM). The prototype site. comment form.
Lots of enhancements to Congress.gov
Enhancements include a new series of “Two-Minute Tips” videos, a browsable list of Popular Titles and Short Titles of legislation, and indexing of Senate Executive Communications. For more information: List of Congress.gov Enhancements Now over 1,000,000 Items to Search on Congress.gov: Communications and More Added, by Andrew Weber, In Custodia Legis (October 7, 2015). Hat […]
How to use public records
This very nice “how-to” article provides an example of how “public records” are much more than the published record of governments. How public records can shed light on private prisons, by Beryl Lipton, Muckrock (October 6, 2015). The details of our prisons typically are and have been matters of public record, if one only knows […]
Supreme Court Website Addresses link-rot and content-drift
The Supreme Court has announced two important changes to its website. The Court will now highlight changes to slip opinions and the Court will now attempt to preserve web-based content cited in Court opinions. These website enhancements address two digital preservation problems: changes to content over time, known as “content-drift”, and content being deleted or […]
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