Day archives: October 12th, 2015

Paper – Characterizing the Google Books Corpus

Characterizing the Google Books Corpus: Strong Limits to Inferences of Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Evolution. Eitan Adam Pechenick, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds. PLOS ONE – Published: October 7, 2015. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137041. “It is tempting to treat frequency trends from the Google Books data sets as indicators of the “true” popularity of various words and …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

Public Collection – public art and literacy project

“The Public Collection is a public art and literacy project developed by Rachel M. Simon to improve literacy, foster a deeper appreciation of the arts, and raise awareness for education and social justice in our community. Through a curated process, Indiana-based artists were commissioned to design unique book share stations or lending libraries that are installed in …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries

Quality of Death Index 2015 – Ranking palliative care across the world

The Economist: “The UK ranks first in the 2015 Quality of Death Index, a measure of the quality of palliative care in 80 countries around the world released today by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Its ranking is due to comprehensive national policies, the extensive integration of palliative care into the National Health Service, a …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Constitutional Bad Faith

Pozen, David, Constitutional Bad Faith (October 12, 2015). 129 Harvard Law Review (forthcoming 2016). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2672386 “The concepts of good faith and bad faith play a central role in many areas of private law and international law. Typically associated with honesty, loyalty, and fair dealing, good faith is said to supply …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Healthcare.gov launches user privacy initiative

Healthcare.gov blog: “Our new Privacy Manager puts privacy choices at your fingertips Your privacy is serious business. That’s why we always make sure we have important safeguards in place to protect the information you provide when you visit HealthCare.gov. We’ve now introduced a tool that lets you easily control some of the information we may …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Privacy