Demystifying Digital Deposit: What It Is and What It Could Do for the Future of the FDLP

At the Fall Depository Library Council Meeting in Arlington, VA, Rebecca Blakeley gave a presentation that she and I wrote on "Demystifying Digital Deposit: What It Is and What It Could Do for the Future of the FDLP." Although a PDF version of the presentation is available on the FDLP web site, it only has the slides, not the text of the presentation.

The complete, original PowerPoint file, including the "speaker notes" with the complete text of the presentation, is available on slideshare:

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White House site goes open source!

Today, the White House Web site (whitehouse.gov) switched to the [w:open source] Drupal platform -- the same software running FGI! I'm glad they made the shift. It's one thing to talk about transparency the way the Obama administration has done, it's another to use tools imbued with openness and transparency in order to get to that goal. White House opens Web site programming to public
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
The Associated Press
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New blog: National Security Archive

The National Security Archive at George Washington University announced its new blog today: Unredacted: The National Security Archive, Unedited and Uncensored. The announcement says:

The National Security Archive is pleased to open its virtual doors with a new behind-the-scenes blog, "Unredacted: The National Security Archive, Unedited and Uncensored,". The Archive's own experience with thousands of Freedom of Information Act and Mandatory Declassification Review requests provides a wealth of data and fundamental lessons that we hope to share with you. "Unredacted" will highlight never before publicly seen government documents as part of our regular "Document Friday" series. The blog will feature commentary and analysis from our experts on current news stories, events, ongoing litigation and advocacy efforts, newly-released documents, and other hot topics. We will regularly highlight some of our top document collections -- including unpublished collections donated by top journalists and authors -- that are available to researchers and the public. The new blog will also tell you more about the Archive's global activities, including reports from the field as Archive staff travel to document archives around the world, assist international courts and tribunals with human rights cases, support efforts to enact and implement freedom of information laws in other nations, and attend meetings and conferences with other NGO representatives and high-level government officials.
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Private-Sector Privacy Problems: gmail edition

In Google we trust? Think again, by Joe Newman, Public Citizen (October 21, 2009).

A Gmail user who did nothing wrong had his or her account shut down because of [a] bank’s monumental screw up. And Google, a company that basically prints its own cash, didn’t lift a finger to protect the rights of one of its users.
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States urged to create data catalogs

States urged to create data catalogs, by Joab Jackson, Federal Computer Week (Oct 07, 2009).

Federal agencies shouldn't be the only ones to open their data for the public — states and local governments should also be ramping up efforts to become more transparent, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) contends in a newly published report. The first thing a state should do is create a one-stop portal, or data catalog, for all its publicly-accessible data, along the lines of the White House's Data.Gov , the report states.
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