Chronology of data library and data centres
Do you have responsibilities for data or statistics in your library? It may come as a surprise to you, if you are new to managing research data, that social science data professionals have been managing, storing, preserving, delivering, and providing service for social science data for 40 years. The premier organization for social science data […]
PACER and EDGAR
The PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) database of judicial opinions, pleadings, motions and other papers continues to present a vexing public access issue. Brian Brodie, at the online news site Quartz (whose audience is “business people in the new global economy”), provides a good review of the issues around the current state of […]
Fiction: Postcard from an Un-neutral Net
I (Daniel), was part of National Novel Writing Month. Despite the name, you can pretty much write anything you want as long as you try to make 50,000 words during the month of November. I chose to write an anthology of short stories using randomly generated writing prompts. One of my stories turned out to […]
The League of Dangerous Mapmakers
The Republican Party is in control of both the House and Senate, and the redrawing of Congressional districts is one of the tools that led America to its current fate. The Atlantic follows Tom Hoffeler, a Republican consultant responsible for the bulk work of the redistricting strategy. Following the coincidence of the 2010 Census and […]
CIA and DHS want to delete almost all their emails
There are a couple of things that are troubling to me about this report: Agencies were asked to send proposals on management of email and CIA and DHS proposed to just delete them, regardless of their historical importance. The National Archives has already tentatively approved of the proposal The story goes on to note that […]