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Photographs and images from the government
Government “documents” come in all shapes and sizes and formats. I have never delved much into images available from government agencies, but there are a lot and it is increasingly easy to find collections of them. The current (April 4, 2014 — Volume 20, Number 13) edition of The Scout Report, for example, describes the […]
Born-Digital U.S. Federal Government Information: Preservation and Access
The paper that I prepared under contract for the Center for Research Libraries is now available: Born-Digital U.S. Federal Government Information: Preservation and Access, March 2014. Prepared by James A. Jacobs for “Leviathan, the Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Collections Forum.” [link updated] This is one of several background readings recommended by CRL for […]
The Government Makes the Internet Better
Kevin Taglang of the Benton Foundation outlines the findings of a recent GAO report, Federal Broadband Deployment Programs and Small Business, and concludes that The Government Makes the Internet Better. The Government Makes the Internet Better, by Kevin Taglang, Benton Foundation Blog (March 14, 2014) Although it did not garner much coverage, an independent, nonpartisan […]
Happy Birthday Web!
On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee published Information Management: A Proposal and, soon, the first web server was running on a NeXT workstation. So, Happy Birthday to the Web! I’m guessing some FGI readers were not librarians (or born) 25 years ago, so return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear and see […]
The ProPublica Data Store
ProPublica, the independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest, announced today the launching of “the ProPublica Data Store.” Introducing the ProPublica Data Store, by Scott Klein and Ryann Grochowski Jones, ProPublica (Feb. 26, 2014). The ProPublica Data Store. The store includes links to open government data and links to raw, as-is […]
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