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Vote! Apps for America 2 Contest Finalists
The Sunlight Foundation has announced three finalists for their Apps for America 2 Contest. Sign up for a free account and Vote for the winner!
The finalists include:
GovPulse.usis a “Federal Register browser” allowing you to browse the by agency, category or date. The visualizations are pretty cool too.
ThisWeKnow.org allows you to explore government data about your community. I did a search for my city, and it gave me a summary, but I also can look at how many people in my county were diagnosed with Cancer. Dang!
DataMasher lets you mashup two different data sources and you can share/comment on others. Sunlight Foundation really likes this mashup: High School Graduation vs Guns in Household.
Thank goodness for data.gov and the opening up of more government data so we can make cool applications like these!
More Gov Info Presentations @ ALA Annual
If you are going to the ALA Annual 2009 Conference in Chicago next week, please come to the “ALA Unconference” where I will be leading a broad discussion on Friday, July 10th from 11:10-12:00 on the library’s role in current & emerging trends of civic engagement, transparency, preservation and access to Government information. The supporting materials and presentation will be linked in the Unconference wiki.
Also, please come to the LITA BIGWIG Social Software Showcase to discuss and learn about Government Information Mashups! I will be presenting on this topic and would love to have you help out and/or join in on the conversation! The presentation will be posted on their website but the face to face portion of the BIGWIG Showcase presentations will take place Monday, July 13th from 10:30am – 12:30pm in the McCormick Convention Center West, Room W-184.
New “Global Legal Monitor” RSS Feeds @ LOC
The Law Library of Congress’s Global Legal Monitor has added more than 300 topic and jurisdictional RSS feeds.
Topics include the Census, Freedom of Information, Government Publications, Intellectual Property, Libraries, and Secrecy!
There is also an RSS for all articles in the Global Legal Monitor too.
Tip o’ the hate to Resource Shelf.
LOC to Capture #sotomayor Tweets
The Library of Congress announced via their Twitter account, that:
LOC will capture tweets on #sotomayor for its web archives on the Sotomayor nomination. http://www.loc.gov/webcapture/
Here is a list of some of the latest web capture projects they are working on:
Supreme Court Nominations 2009
The Supreme Court Nominations 2009 Web Archive will be a selective collection of Web sites archived between June 2009 through the completion of the hearings process. Web sites collected will include materials produced by watchdog, public policy, and political advocacy groups, blogs and tweets, community and religious organizations, foreign and domestic news sources, educational and research institutions, and independent websites.
Collection dates: June 2009 through confirmation hearings.Indian General Elections
The Library’s Delhi Overseas Operations Office is documenting the ongoing process of India general election in 2009.
Presidential Transition During a Time of Crises Web Archive
Presidential Transition During a Time of Crises Web Archive will be a selective collection of Web sites archived between January 2009 and June 2009. Web sites collected will include materials produced by domestic and foreign political groups, community and religious organizations, advocacy groups, foreign and domestic news sources, and independent websites.
Collection dates: January 2009 – June 2009. The collection will be evaluated prior to completion and may be extended.
I would suggest they start archiving the tweets about the #iranelection (see earlier blog post) by James R. Jacobs.
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