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Profile of Mike Wash
The Library of Congress Digital Preservation blog The Signal has a brief biographical portrait of Mike Wash who was chief technical officer at GPO and is now chief information officer of the National Archives and Record Administration.
- Digital Pioneer: Mike Wash, by Mike Ashenfelder, The Signal (December 21st, 2011).
Roundup of Government Info News and New Resources
Time once again for a selection of news and new resources that we hope will be an interest to the FGI community. The posts are from INFOdocket.com (@infofodocket) where we compile and post new items daily from a variety of resources. 1. “Obama Wants Better Digital Archive of Federal Records” + Full Text of Presidential Memorandum 2. Now Available: EPA Releases Formerly Confidential Chemical Information 3. San Antonio, TX: New Online Database: Historical Election Results are Digitized 4. Statistics Canada to Make All Online Data Free 5. UK Parliament: MPs to Investigate Library Closures 6. TR Center Officially Launches the Theodore Roosevelt Digital Collection 7. Idaho: Libraries to Adjust to New Internet Filtering Law 8. U.S.: National Archives Trust Fund To Sell Copies of the 1940 Census (Digital & Microfilm Versions) Available 9. All Thing Preservation: New NARA (National Archives) Twitter Stream & Tumblr Page 10. U.S. History: Senator George Mitchell Oral History Project Debuts Online 11.New Social Media Resource: “PolitickerUSA is the Best Way to Track Politicians’ Tweets” 12. Video Now Online of NARA’s “What’s Next in Social Media” Forum 13. Child Welfare Information Gateway — State Guides & Manuals Search 14. GPO Releases Its First App 15. New UN Database Available: Expert Panel Launches Tool to Fight Arbitrary Deprivation of Freedom 16. State of Minnesota Posts Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDD) 17. U.S. Government: USAID Launches New GeoCenter 18. Public Access to Indiana’s Historic Sanborn Maps Provides Treasure Trove of Information 19. California: More than 13,000 Online Maps Provide Historic View of State 20. UNESCO’s Global Open Access Portal Now Online Continue reading
New From NARA: National Archives Publishes National Registry of Controlled Unclassified Information
Reposted with Permission from INFOdocket.com From NARA:
On November 4, 2010, President Obama signed Executive Order 13556, "Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)," and designated the National Archives and Records Administration as the Executive Agent "to implement this order and oversee agency actions to ensure compliance with this order." On November 4, 2011, as required by this Executive Order, the National Archives Controlled Unclassified Information Office established a publically available registry reflecting the initial categories and subcategories of unclassified information that require dissemination or safeguarding controls consistent with and pursuant to law, regulation, and Government-wide policy. This registry is online. [Clip] The CUI program will be implemented in phases based on compliance plans and target dates to be submitted by executive agencies and departments. When fully implemented, the CUI program will require executive departments and agencies to exclusively use these categories for controlling and marking such unclassified information. The National Archives will consult with the agencies and the Office of Management and Budget and then set implementation deadlines for CUI, to include for applying standardized CUI markings. Currently, there are more than 100 different policies for such information across the Executive branch. This plethora of policies has created inefficiency and confusion, leading to a patchwork system that fails to adequately safeguard information requiring protection, and unnecessarily restricts information sharing by creating needless impediments.Learn More ||| Access the Registry Read the Complete Announcement Continue reading
Social Media and “Citizen Archivists” at NARA
The National Archives and Records Administration is active in using social media. It also recently announced its intention to create a "Citizen Archivist Dashboard that will encourage the public to pitch in via social media tools on a number of our projects."
- What's Next?, AOTUS (Oct 19, 2011). Access to records in this century means digital access. For many people, if it is not online, it doesn’t exist. The use of social media to increase access is the new norm. NARA has been going after innovative tools and projects that increase digital access to our records, including projects that invite public participation. We are developing a Citizen Archivist Dashboard that will encourage the public to pitch in via social media tools on a number of our projects. You will hear about these and more of our projects at next week’s McGowan Forum, "What’s Next in the Social Media Revolution."
- From Access to Engagement, by Pamela Wright (Nov 7, 2011). [pdf]
- National Archives to launch Citizen Archivist Dashboard, By Joseph Marks, NextGov (11/07/2011). The National Archives and Records Administration plans to launch in December an online Citizen Archivist Dashboard through which volunteers can tag, transcribe and write articles about scanned NARA documents, said Pamela Wright, the agency's chief digital access strategist.
- Social Media and Web 2.0 at the National Archives. ...a comprehensive list of NARA's social media initiatives and those of our affiliate organizations. Please visit us often to see NARA's expanding Web 2.0 and social media projects.
National Archives (NARA) Joins iTunes U.
From the NARAtions Blog: The National Archives just joined iTunes U, a dedicated area within the iTunes Store giving users public access to thousands of free lectures, videos, books and podcasts from learning institutions all over the world. If you already have iTunes on your iPhone, iPad, iPod, or computer, you can search for “National Archives” on iTunes U to find our channel, or visit us at http://itunes.apple.com/us/institution/national-archives-and-records/id438983411. Our initial collections feature selected archival documents, lesson plan materials, podcasts by the Presidential Libraries, videos from our “Inside the Vaults” series and more. (Via INFOdocket.com) Continue reading
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