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Data Rich Reports
Gary at InfoDocket produced a great list of more than 100 “data rich” reports from all over. Get ’em while you can! Reference: A Roundup of New Research and Data-Rich Reports Available on the Open Web The list includes reports on “newsworthy” topics (Brexit, Muslim Populations world wide, State and Local Sales Tax Rates) as […]
Document of the day: NSA’s guide to the internet
This just came through my twitter feed from @MuckRock. Through a FOIA request which shook it loose from the notoriously difficult NSA, we now have access to NSA’s 2007 Untangling the Web: a guide to Internet research. It kind of reads like a Terry Pratchett novel if Terry was having a psychotic/psychedelic episode. As MuckRock […]
End-of-term crawl ongoing. Please help us do QA!
The End of Term 2016 collection is still going strong, and we continue to receive email from interested folks about how they can help. Much of the content for the EOT crawl has already been collected and some of it is publicly accessible already through our partners. Last month we posted about ways to help […]
PACER lawsuit certified as class action case
Lawsuit claiming public being milked for access to court records advances by David Kravets, arsTechnica (1/25/2017). A lawsuit that claims the public is being overcharged by the US government’s website for accessing federal court records just took a major step forward. A federal judge overseeing the litigation against PACER, the Public Access to Court Electronic […]
Vigilance and Action in Uncertain Times
January 31, 2017 / Leave a comment
During this past week, there were many reports about the Trump administration’s actions that appear to be either removing information, or blocking information, or filtering scientific information through a political screen before allowing that information to be released. How concerned should government information specialists be about these developments? Very. What can we do? First, let’s […]
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