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 […]
Video of the sun marks 5th year anniversary of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
This is just too beautiful not to share. NASA marks the 5-year anniversary of their Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) with this video showing amazingly pulsing mass explosions, solar flares, sunspots, coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and the like. SDO provides 13 full-sun images every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That’s 2,600 […]
Another study of link rot and content drift
A new paper on Link Rot and Content Drift gives new details on the extent of the problem. Klein, Martin, Herbert Van de Sompel, Robert Sanderson, Harihar Shankar, Lyudmila Balakireva, Ke Zhou, and Richard Tobin. “Scholarly Context Not Found: One in Five Articles Suffers from Reference Rot.” PLoS ONE 9, no. 12 (December 26, 2014): […]