FOIA highlighted in Maddow’s Best New Thing in the World!
I’m an admitted [[FOIA]] geek. So it was really cool to see Rachel Maddow highlight the positive changes coming to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. The House passed UNANIMOUSLY(!) 410 – 0 H.R.1211 FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2014 co-sponsored by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) […]
GISIG: NARA launches Open Data Portal
via LIS-GISIG blog (gov-info.tumblr.com) They’re looking for suggestions; there are many ways to participate! via Doug Ward in National Archives (NARA) Information Services and Meredith Stewart in the NARA Office of Innovation. The Open Data Policy seeks to expand the number of government data assets that are open and available to the public. Those data […]
More Cuts at Census
Steve Beleu, Regional Librarian for Federal Govt. Information Oklahoma State Data Center Coordinating Agency, recently alerted the documents community to another set of cuts at the Census Bureau: 1. Curtail the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). The QCEW program provides national, State, metropolitan statistical area, and county data on monthly employment and […]
The ProPublica Data Store
ProPublica, the independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest, announced today the launching of “the ProPublica Data Store.” Introducing the ProPublica Data Store, by Scott Klein and Ryann Grochowski Jones, ProPublica (Feb. 26, 2014). The ProPublica Data Store. The store includes links to open government data and links to raw, as-is […]
National Atlas: Another Victim of Austerity
March 5, 2014 / 1 Comment on National Atlas: Another Victim of Austerity
Crossposted from the Writer’s Guide to Government Information blog. The National Atlas from the US Geological Survey has so much of possible interest to fiction writers that it actually has FOUR entries in the Writer’s Guide to Government Information: National Atlas National Atlas Biology National Atlas Climate National Atlas Geology All this is going away on September […]
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