State Databases Activity Report: 2/23/2014
Here’s a roundup of the last two week’s activity at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases: NEW VOLUNTEER Audrey Hall, longtime volunteer for the Ohio page recently retired. Happily she recruited Kirstin Krumsee to take her place! Please join me in thanking Audrey for a job well done and thanking Kristin for joining our […]
Fed Transcripts: Financial Crisis of 2008
Today the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System released transcripts of eight scheduled meetings and six emergency sessions of its Federal Open Market Committee during the 2008 financial crisis. (The Fed delays release of such transcripts for five years.) FOMC: Transcripts and Other Historical Materials, 2008, Federal Open Market Committee. A Chronicle […]
GISIG: Cabinet agencies release full inventory lists of their public data
Happy Open Data Day indeed! Sunlight Foundation Blog, via GISIG Just in time for Open Data Day, your Uncle Sam — aided and abetted by developers here at Sunlight — is giving you a present. It has taken weeks, but it appears that all Cabinet agencies have released complete machine-readable lists of their public data holdings, in […]
How Government Data Is Fueling a New Economy
NextGov, the online technology newsletter from the same media company that publishes The Atlantic magazine and National Journal, is launching a new project to profile companies and nonprofits that are building their businesses with government data. The first two companies are Panjiva, which pays to get U.S. customs data overnighted on CD-ROMs because the data […]
Beta version of redesigned census.gov
The U.S. Census Bureau today released a beta version of its new census.gov website. With a new look and topic-based navigation, the redesigned site is intended to provide easier access to statistics on America’s people, places and economy. Census Bureau Provides Preview of Redesigned Census.gov [press release] beta.census.gov