“An alarmingly casual indifference to accuracy and authenticity.” What we know about digital surrogates
In a new article in Portal, Diana Kichuk examines the reliability and accuracy of digital text extracted from printed books in five digital libraries: the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, the HathiTrust, Google Books, and the Digital Public Library of America. She focuses particularly on the accuracy and utility of the digital text for reading in […]
Beyond the Numbers
Document of the day: Beyond the Numbers at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The wonderful Scout Report a the University of Wisconsin-Madison, highlighted this gem in its most recent newsletter. The Scout’s description says it all: For readers who love stats and facts, Beyond the Numbers, which is published biweekly by the Bureau of Labor […]
Data, Data, Data.
As a data librarian since the mid-1980s, I have watched the field expand and bourgeon with a sense of giddy delight. A good friend who has been a data librarian longer than I have once said he would retire when children started saying that wanted to grow up to be data librarians. Well, that time […]
Introducing the Federal Web Archiving Working Group
Interesting and informative post by our friend, Michael Neubert, a Supervisory Digital Projects Specialist at the Library of Congress: Introducing the Federal Web Archiving Working Group, by Michael Neubert, The Signal digital preservation blog of the Library of Congress (February 23, 2015). Michael comments on the huge amount of born-digital federal government information that is […]
Government Information? You’re Soaking in It!
[UPDATE #1: Christian James tweeted that besides the National Agricultural Library, we should also credit USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and their National Nutrient Database. So big thanks to USDA-ARS!] Many Americans don’t think they use government information, but they’re wrong. Many people think that the private sector meets their information needs just fine and […]