Live blogging DLC Spring ’09 in Tampa
We're live blogging from the Spring '09 Depository Library Council meeting (April 20 - April 22, 2009) from the glorious Hyatt Regency Hotel in Tampa Bay, FL. The Public Printer is to address GPO's role in Government Transparency at 10:30am EST today (monday). You can also track the twitter hashtag #dlc09. Check here for agenda and schedule.
Now we have a CTO too!
The Obama administration broke new ground by appointing a Chief Information Officer (See: CIO2.0 - White House Names "First Federal Chief Information Officer). Now, President Obama has appointed Virginia Secretary of Technology Aneesh Chopra to serve as the nation's first Chief Technology Officer.
- Weekly Address: Efficiency and Innovation, President Obama, Whitehouse.gov, April 18th 2009.
- Obama Names Chopra National CTO, National Journal, Tech Daily Dose, April 18, 2009.
Guide of the Week: Patent and Trademark Information
Patent research is one of more obscure things one can do. It is hard enough to determine whether there is a US patent for a given invention, and today's globalized world often requires looking at international patents as well. Where to begin? One place to start is this week's Guide of the Week from the ALA GODORT Handout Exchange Wiki:
Patent and Trademark Information (Univ. of California--Berkeley, 1999) Last updated 2/9/2007This guide is divided into the following sections:
- Introduction
- Pre-1872 Patent Information
- Foreign and International Patent Information
- Other Patent Collections
- Bibliography of Patent & Trademark Sources
- CD-ROM Sources
- Internet Sources
- Step by Step Patent Research
- Japan Patent Office: A searchable database of Japanese patent abstracts, which includes the patent number, title, inventor, company, and abstract of the patent.
- Foreign patents: a guide to official patent literature by Francis J. Kase. 1972.
- Code of Federal Regulations, Title 37: Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights.
- Finding List for United States Patent, Design, Trademark, Reissue, Label, Print, and Plant Patent Numbers. - Gives the volume number of the Official Gazette in which a given patent number will be found for the years 1872-1993. Includes information on earlier patents.
- Google Patent Search - Access over 7 million patents from 1790-2006. Does not currently include patent applications, international patents, or U.S. patents issued over the last few months. Includes tips for advanced patent searching.
- Searching for pre-1976 U.S. patents via University of Maine
- Patent Search Tutorial and Information via University of Texas
- The 7-Step Strategy via the U.S. Patent Office
- U.S. Patent Searching via Oregon State University
Recovery.Org vs. Recovery.Gov
Private sector zips past government in Recovery Act tracking, By Robert Brodsky, NextGov, (04/16/2009).
The charter for the Obama administration's Recovery.gov Web site is to allow every citizen to monitor the progress of economic stimulus spending. It's an ambitious goal, and one that government might not reach for some time. But a private sector company boasts it already has created a site that meets the government's objectives. On March 31, Seattle-based Onvia launched Recovery.org, a site capable of tracking every dollar of federal, state and local Recovery Act spending in real time, according to company officials....Continue reading
Sunlight Labs: Envisioning Data.Gov
The good folks at Sunlight Labs have written a brief overview of how they think a "data.gov" web site would look and function.
- Redesigning the Government: Data.gov, by Clay, Sunlight Labs, April 16 2009.
...we thought we’d actually take the opportunity to design data.gov right off the bat to show you all what we’d like to see happen.Continue reading