GPO & Federal Judiciary Provide Access To More Than One Million Federal Court Opinions
This is an important milestone! (It is important to note that this project has Court Opinions, and does not include everything in the notorious PACER system. See FDsys Court Opinions Project and PACER.) GPO Press Release: GPO & FEDERAL JUDICIARY HONORED FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO MORE THAN ONE MILLION FEDERAL COURT OPINIONS [PDF] Excerpt: FOR […]
President’s Daily Briefs from Kennedy and Johnson Finally Released. FOIA FTW!
Wow! It took 8 years, but a collection of 2,500 declassified President’s Daily Briefs (PDBs) from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations are now available. Now we’ll see how easy (or difficult) it is to collect them all for the Stanford FOIA Web archive. I also hope the UCSB Presidency Project makes them available from their […]
Politwoops archive of politicians’ deleted tweets uploaded to Internet Archive
In August, 2015, Twitter shut down the Politwoops service and its sister site Diplotwoops that tracked politicians’ deleted tweets. Twitter revoked access to its API for all Politwoops sites in 30 countries around the world, citing terms of service violations. In a move to preserve all of those deleted tweets, Open State has uploaded its […]
Bernard A. Barton Jr.: New CIO of the Library of Congress
8 Tough Questions for the New CIO of the Library of Congress, By Hallie Golden, NextGov (September 14, 2015). As the newly appointed chief information officer of the Library of Congress, Bernard A. Barton Jr. says excelling in the digital age is going to depend a lot on making smart predictions.
College Scorecard
College Scorecard is the new U.S. Department of Education website that provides detailed comparative information about colleges. (The Department has abandoned its earlier attempt to rate colleges.) The site includes both a user-friendly front end of statistics and graphs and a separate data site (College Scorecard Data) with data behind the College Scorecard, as well […]