Frontline documentary: United States of Secrets
In case you missed it, PBS now has both parts of the Frontline Documentary “United States of Secrets” online. United States of Secrets. PBS. 2014. Part One – “The Program: How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans?” Part Two – “Privacy Lost: How Silicon Valley feeds the NSA’s global dragnet.”
GISIG – IMLS Webinar June 11: The IMLS [35,000] Museum Big Data File
FYI for those interested in Archives, preservation, reference, libraries and museums management, databases, Big Data, Digital Humanities, education funding, job opportunities, Primary Source curricula, repatriation, and totally neato stuff in general. IMLS Press Release IMLS Museum Universe Data File Webinar: June 11 Learn more about how the data file was created and how you can […]
Lunchtime Listen: Born Digital Government Information
Back in April I gave a brief (18 minutes!) talk at the Center for Research Libraries Forum, Leviathan: Libraries and Government Information in the Era of Big Data. Here are the slides and the audio recording of that presentation: Government Records and Information: Real Risks and Potential Losses. The presentation gave me an opportunity to […]
State Agency Databases Activity Report 5/25/2014
It was a relatively quiet week for the volunteers at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. FEATURED DATABASE Today’s featured database is from Jenn Zuccaro, who maintains the Hawaii page: Papakilo Database – www.papakilodatabase.com/main/main.php “The Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ (OHA’s) Papakilo Database, is the ongoing development of a cutting edge and comprehensive “Database of Databases” consisting […]
NASA releases eBook on communicating with aliens
NASA‘s just published “Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication” in MOBI, EPUB and PDF. I think I know how we’re all spending this long memorial day weekend! Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical […]