FDSys web site is getting a make over
The FDSys blog is reporting that the main FDSys web site will be redone. According to the brief post, "Updates will include Frequently Asked Questions, system capabilities, reference material, and outreach." If you have questions about the new web site, the FDSys blog post invites you to leave comments on the blog or sending questions to pmo@gpo.gov. Based on the new FDLP Desktop design, I'm hoping the FDSys web site redesign will bring good things and be more user friendly. There's still the issue of FDSys itself promoting an information monoculture, but that's been covered before and will be covered again. FGI appreciates all of the Government Printing Office's efforts to provide more communication and interaction with the community of federal information users. Continue reading
FGI Podcast 3 – Sunlight Foundation, LOCKSS, Bats & Broadband
FGI Podcast #3 is now available. Our 45 minute show included the following segments: Sunlight Foundation Interview Sunlight Foundation Open House Project Scott Matheson's LOCKSS presentation Spring 2007 Depository Library Council Proceedings Scott's LOCKSS Slides Podcast Sampler Ohio Outdoor Notebook Radio Spots - Ohio's Little Brown Bats (July 12, 2007) Music Outro - Broadband Connection downloaded from the Internet Archive's Open Source Audio collection and created by Sinister Dexter. Used under Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. Our theme music and bumpers came from Set Me Free by DJ Topshelf and downloaded from Podsafe Audio. ----------------------- What did you think about today's show? Let us know! We have three ways you can give us feedback or make suggestions for future shows: - Make a comment on the show blog at http://freegovinfo.info/blog/154 - Send a text comment to admin AT freegovinfo DOT info - Record an audio comment up to 5MB and e-mail it to danielcornwall AT gmail DOT com. Text messages will be read on the air and audio comments will be played unless you ask us not to. We'd love to have some listener feedback to make our show better and to have more content. So if you like, love or hate anything about our podcast, do let us know. Continue reading
Big Privacy Problems of Facebook?
I have not verified any of this and would be interested to hear if others have.
- Do you have Facebook? andyuk2005, YouTube
XNEWS from rixstep says:
Get this: they want to help you find your friends on Facebook. That's nice of them, isn't it? So what do you do? Easy. You go to their contact page and give them your webmail account name and password. And then they log into your account, pluck up all the contact addresses you have in there, and then walk out without touching a thing.Continue reading
Facebook is unfriendly to library search applications
Facebook Shuns Some Library Search Tools by Brock Read. Academe Today, July 5, 2007.
Some librarians designed software intended to let students search library card catalogs, but were told that Facebook prohibits applications with "Web-search functionality of any kind."Continue reading
Big News! NARA says no to DRM software!
- NARA says no to DRM software, by Jason Miller, FCW, June 18, 2007.
Officials at the National Archives and Records Administration have growing concerns about the effect of digital rights management software on federal records. Allen Weinstein, the nation's archivist, has issued a new policy stating that NARA will not accept electronic records that include such software.
- NARA Bulletin 2007-02 April 30, 2007; TO: Heads of Federal agencies; SUBJECT: Guidance concerning the use of Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) and other encryption-related software on Federal records
The NARA bulletin refers to "ERM" this way:
Enterprise rights management (ERM) software manages and enforces information access policies and use rights of electronic documents within an enterprise; its development has been predicated on digital rights management (DRM) technology.
Although the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) bulletin says that it will scan electronic records during accessioning and reject those that contain "ERM protection" and return them to the originating agency for removal of the ERM protection, NARA also gives advice to agencies that still want to use ERM.
NARA suggests agencies choosing to deploy ERM or encryption technologies take steps to evaluate the effect that this will have on records management practices and consider instituting policies and procedures that will minimize adverse consequences.
Thanks to Patrice McDermott and GovInfo News (7-6-2007)!
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