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CRL to Digitize Endangered Foreign Government Publications
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded the Center for Research Libraries funding to preserve and make available on the open web endangered government documentation from certain African and Persian Gulf region nations. The grant of $248,500 will enable digitization of official gazettes from those nations, which have been preserved over the past sixty years […]
Docs Confirm NSA sharing data with 23 U.S. government agencies, via ICREACH search engine
original post @ LIS-GISIG According to Classified documents obtained by The Intercept’ s Ryan Gallagher, “The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats.” The documents provide […]
LIS-GISIG – CRS: Records in a Digital Environment: Background and Issues for Congress
via gov-info.tumblr.com Leaked by Secrecy News blogger Steven Aftergood ( @saftergood ) All federal departments and agencies create federal records “in connection with the transaction of public business.” The Federal Records Act, as amended (44 U.S.C. Chapters 21, 29, 31, and 33), requires executive branch departments and agencies to collect, retain, and preserve federalbrecords, which […]
GISIG – IMLS Webinar June 11: The IMLS [35,000] Museum Big Data File
FYI for those interested in Archives, preservation, reference, libraries and museums management, databases, Big Data, Digital Humanities, education funding, job opportunities, Primary Source curricula, repatriation, and totally neato stuff in general. IMLS Press Release IMLS Museum Universe Data File Webinar: June 11 Learn more about how the data file was created and how you can […]
GISIG: NARA launches Open Data Portal
via LIS-GISIG blog (gov-info.tumblr.com) They’re looking for suggestions; there are many ways to participate! via Doug Ward in National Archives (NARA) Information Services and Meredith Stewart in the NARA Office of Innovation. The Open Data Policy seeks to expand the number of government data assets that are open and available to the public. Those data […]
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