RSS feed of Foreign Relations of the United States
The State Department has an RSS (ATOM) feed that lists new releases of the important series Foreign Relations of the United States: history.state.gov/open/frus-latest.xml.
The Office of the Historian is responsible, under law, for the preparation and publication of the official historical documentary record of U.S. foreign policy in the Foreign Relations of the United States series. This dataset is a feed for the latest ten volumes in the Foreign Relations of the United States series. Each record in the dataset contains a volume's title, year of publication, summary, and link to the online volumes. The feed will be updated when current volumes are edited or new volumes are published. http://history.state.gov/open/frus-latestI had never noticed that statement (above) that current volumes might be edited after release. Does that mean that material might be deleted or changed? Or does "editing" only mean adding new content? Continue reading
Public Contributions to Library of Congress Flickr Commons
A good story with a slide show.
- History Detectives, by Emily Long, NextGov (05/24/2010)
- slideshow of some of the photos posted to Flickr with sample comments submitted by the public about the image.
- Thank you from LoC "to all the wonderful people who have contributed comments, tags, and notes."
- Flickr Commons, "Your opportunity to contribute to describing the world's public photo collections."
- The Library of Congress' photostream on Flickr.
Digital Dreams and Dashboards: Notable Government Documents 2009
Digital Dreams and Dashboards: Notable Government Documents 2009, By David N. Griffths, Library Journal (5/15/2010).
Though budget cuts have squeezed government information services at the local level, major digital initiatives and steps toward open governance at the federal level have compensated for some of these losses.Continue reading
Digital Library of the week: The National Park Service E-Library
The American Library Association's digital library of the week is The National Park Service E-Library.
- Digital library of the week: The National Park Service E-Library, American Library Association "ILoveLibaries.org" (May 20th, 2010) The collection houses information on all aspects of the NPS mission since its August 25, 1916, founding. Subject matter includes archeological and anthropological research, history and natural history, urban ecology, wildlife, and geology.
Virtual Cookbook Winning Recipes
On a lighter note today: here are the winning recipes from the healthy recipe challenge, which was part of the FedsGetFit (FGF) wellness initiative. Really. Enjoy!
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