Day archives: January 19th, 2013

NYT Document Release Chronicles Federal Reserve's 2007 Deliberations

Days Before Housing Bust, Fed Doubted Need to Act, by Binyamin Appelbaum: “The Federal Reserve has released the full record of its discussions in 2007, when the housing market, the financial system and the economy took a fateful turn.” DOCUMENT: Annotating the Fed’s 2007 Deliberations INTERACTIVE: Timeline: The Fed’s 2007 Discussions Transcripts Revive a Tiff …

Subjects: Government Documents

Space Data and Information Transfer Systems — Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories

Via OCLC – SO 16363:2012. Space Data and Information Transfer Systems (see authors link)— Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories outlines actions a repository can take to be considered trustworthy, but research examining whether the repository’s designated community of users associates such actions with trustworthiness has been limited. Drawing from this ISO document and …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries

Epigenome-wide association data implicate DNA methylation as an intermediary of genetic risk in rheumatoid arthritis

Nature Biotechnology (2013). doi:10.1038/nbt.2487. Published online January 20 2013. “Epigenetic mechanisms integrate genetic and environmental causes of disease, but comprehensive genome-wide analyses of epigenetic modifications have not yet demonstrated robust association with common diseases. Using Illumina HumanMethylation450 arrays on 354 anti-citrullinated protein antibody–associated rheumatoid arthritis cases and 337 controls, we identified two clusters within the …

Subjects: Government Documents

EFF Amicus Brief Argues for Protection of Transformative Uses to Protect News Tracking Services

EFF: “In Associated Press v. Meltwater, AP claims its copyrights are infringed when Meltwater, an electronic news clipping service, includes excerpts of AP stories in search results for its clients seeking reports of news coverage based on particular keywords. In its argument, AP asks the court to accept an extraordinarily narrow view of fair use …

Subjects: Copyright, Courts, Legal Research

EPIC – TSA to remove body scanners without privacy software by June 2013

Follow up to previous postings on airport use of full body scanners, news from EPIC: “the US Transportation Security Administration will end the contract for backscatter x-ray devices. As a consequence, all devices that produce a detailed naked image of air travelers will be removed from US airports. Beginning in 2005, EPIC and then a …

Subjects: Courts, Legal Research, Privacy