2016 End of Term Web Archive is now available
The 2016 end of term .gov/.mil web crawl is now available! We collected approximately 300TB of government websites which includes over “70 million html pages, over 40 million PDFs and, towards the other end of the spectrum and for semantic web aficionados, 8 files of the text/turtle mime type” as well as @100TB of public […]
Legal Link Rot
The good folks at perma.cc recently conducted a “quick review” of the links in court filings made in the last five years by three of the largest law firms in the U.S. Link Rot for Lawyers: a Prodigious Problem. (February 1, 2018) They found that over 80% had at least one broken link and that, […]
ICPSR to host new U.S. Census Bureau Data Repository
Check out this cool new partnership between the US Census Bureau and Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) to archive and preserve data for future use. This deepens the longstanding collaboration between the two organizations. You can find it online at census.icpsr.umich.edu/. A new U.S. Census Bureau Data Repository has been launched to […]
Threats to Government Data
Researchers at the Brookings Institution are monitoring the Trump administration’s management of federal government data sources. Threats to Government Data Are Threats to Democracy, by Andre Perry and Katherine Guyot, The Brookings Institution. Government Executive (February 8, 2018). Census. The Census Bureau has canceled crucial preparations for the upcoming decennial census because of persistent underfunding […]
Government Tech Agency 18F in Decline
Fedscoop reports that 18F, an office within the General Services Administration (GSA) tasked with improving how the government delivers services to the public, has less than half the employees it had 18 months ago. The rise and fall of 18F, by Daniel Castro, Fedscoop (Feb 6, 2018). Virtually all this attrition is likely voluntary and […]