Once-cancelled hurricane-monitoring data to stay online (for now)
The world of government information continues to be in a state of topsy-turviness. Last month, on a Tuesday, NOAA suddenly announced that on the following Monday, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) and Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) would “discontinue ingest, processing and distribution of all DMSP data no later than June […]
Internet Archive designated an FDLP Library!
This bit of good news just dropped! The Internet Archive has joined the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The FDLP is a network of over 1000 libraries around the country who receive government publications from the Government Publishing Office (GPO) and offer public services to help those in their communities access the great wide world […]
Join JJ and JRJ for a book talk at Internet Archive aug 28 10am PST
Please join us for a virtual book talk August 28th at 10am PST hosted by the Internet Archive (FREE!) to talk about our new book “Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future.” Our PEGI Project pal Shari Laster will be grilling us … er … I mean … guiding the conversation.
Vanishing data undermines public policy globally
The alteration and removal of data collected by the US Federal Government will have effects world wide. Researchers around the world rely on good, accurate, timely, and historical data provided, maintained, and preserved by the US government. A recent article describes this situation for Canada: Vanishing data in the U.S. undermines good public policy, with […]
Lancet investigation shows data manipulation in major U.S. health datasets
Well, this is disturbing and could have ripple effects through public health research that is sure to erode confidence in federal data. A new study in the medical journal The Lancet entitled “Data manipulation within the US Federal Government” reports that more than 100 United States government health datasets have been altered this spring without […]