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State Agency Databases Activity Report 6/8/2014
It was a somewhat active week for the volunteers at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases as we started up our June link-checking activity. FEATURED DATABASE Today’s featured database is from Jenn Zuccaro, who maintains the Hawaii page: Hawaii State Archives Digital Collections – archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/cgi-bin/library – Search digital collections of Hawaii State Archives, including Chinese, […]
Let’s end gerrymandering: let the people draw the lines
[[Gerrymandering]] has long been a problem in American politics. Every 10 years, after the decennial census, Congressional districts are re-drawn to even out the population of every district (700,000 people / Congressional district). Alan Lowenthal, Representative for California’s 47th congressional district, has introduced H.R. 2978: Let the People Draw the Lines Act of 2013 to […]
Frontline documentary: United States of Secrets
In case you missed it, PBS now has both parts of the Frontline Documentary “United States of Secrets” online. United States of Secrets. PBS. 2014. Part One – “The Program: How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans?” Part Two – “Privacy Lost: How Silicon Valley feeds the NSA’s global dragnet.”
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 […]
Lunchtime Listen: Born Digital Government Information
Back in April I gave a brief (18 minutes!) talk at the Center for Research Libraries Forum, Leviathan: Libraries and Government Information in the Era of Big Data. Here are the slides and the audio recording of that presentation: Government Records and Information: Real Risks and Potential Losses. The presentation gave me an opportunity to […]
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