NRC Censors Environmental Impact Statement
NRC Censors Environmental Impact Statement. OMB Watch. 01/24/2005.
OMB Watch reports that "The public will not have access to health and safety data about a proposed uranium enrichment plant in New Mexico, despite a legal requirement that the public have ample access to such information."
Continue readingBLS proposes to stop collecting women worker’s data
Bureau of Labor Statistics proposes to stop collecting employer job counts of female workers because "there is little demand for the figures." Job Gender Surveys May End. Continue reading
United Nations opens Official Document System
United Nations opens Official Document System to General Public The United Nations (UN) announced that Official Document System (ODS), the premier full-text web resource for official United Nations documentation, opens to the general public via ODS as of 31 December 2004. Comprehensive coverage starts in 1993. Continue reading
GSA to charge for information
This article relates an interesting example of a government agency wanting to make information available for free to the public using older technology (FTP), but charging for better access (Web Services, continuous feeds). GSA to charge $2,500 for Web services access to procurement data By Jason Miller, Government Computer News 12/29/04
The General Services Administration made it official yesterday, setting a one-time fee of $2,500 for vendors and the public to receive a direct, continuous feed from the new Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation via Web services. The data will remain free for those who choose to receive the information via File Transfer Protocol or to perform ad hoc or prewritten queries of the database, GSA said in the interim rule with a request for comments published in Tuesday's Federal Register. Comments are due Feb. 28.("Web Services" is a term than encompasses a broad range of technologies that have the potential for transforming the web as we know it to something much more exciting and functional -- in the same way that HTML transformed The Internet from file transfer and email to what we use today. See, for example, http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ and http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2001/04/04/webservices/index.html.) Continue reading
Lawsuit seeks to free Johnson’s President’s Daily Briefs
Professor Sues CIA for President's Daily Briefs The National Security Archive, George Washington University. December 23, 2004.
Davis, CA, 23 December 2004 - University of California, Davis professor Larry Berman today filed suit against the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, seeking release of historic President's Daily Briefs given to President Johnson during the Vietnam War.Continue reading