Day archives: June 3rd, 2016

State Department releases Country Reports on Terrorism 2015

“[June 1, 2016] the State Department is issuing the Country Reports on Terrorism, which describes the counterterrorism landscape during the last calendar year and fulfills an important congressional mandate. The report allows us to regularly assess our effectiveness and make informed assessments about policies and priorities and where to place resources. In 2015, the United …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Defense, Government Documents

How Descriptive Metadata Changes in the UNT Libraries’ Collections: A Case Study

Tarver, Hannah; Zavalina, Oksana; Phillips, Mark Edward; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Shakeri, Shadi. How Descriptive Metadata Changes in the UNT Libraries’ Collection: A Case Study. UNT Digital Library. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc406345/. Accessed June 3, 2016. “This paper reports results of an exploratory quantitative analysis of metadata versioning in a large-scale digital library hosted by University of North …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Potential Increases in Hurricane Damage in the United States: Implications for the Federal Budget

“Damage from hurricanes is expected to increase significantly in the coming decades because of the effects of climate change and coastal development. In turn, potential requests for federal relief and recovery efforts will increase as well. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the magnitude of the increases in hurricane damage and the associated amounts of …

Subjects: Climate Change, Congress, Economy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Government Documents

The Little Green Data Book 2016

World Bank new release: “The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015 articulate a new global development agenda to eradicate poverty and shift the world onto a sustainable development path by 2030. The 17 SDGs and their 169 targets are designed as a web of inter-relationships and dependencies, where progress towards one goal can enhance …

Subjects: Economy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Government Documents, Poverty

State of Embedded Analytics Report 2016

“Logi Analytics, the leader in self-service analytics, today released findings from its fourth annual State of Embedded Analytics Report, [reg req’d] which found that the adoption rate of embedded analytics among business users is twice that of traditional BI tools. The report, which studied how organizations embed business intelligence and analytics inside their software applications, …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Scanning and Imaging Shipping Containers Overseas: Costs and Alternatives

Scanning and Imaging Shipping Containers Overseas: Costs and Alternatives, CBO, June 2, 2016: “Each year, about 12 million shipping containers enter U.S. ports. After the September 11, 2001, attacks, concern arose that terrorists might use containers to smuggle weapons of mass destruction—particularly nuclear weapons—into the country. To reduce that threat, the federal government implemented several security …

Subjects: Defense, Government Documents, Transportation

Infographic: Four in Ten Electric Power Generation Establishments

“Statistics from the 2014 County Business Patterns indicate 43 percent of electric power generation establishments convert renewable energy. One of the visualizations shows a distribution of the electric power generation industries (such as nuclear and hydroelectric) by the number of establishments and the corresponding renewable/nonrenewable split (as classified by the Department of Energy.) Also included in this …

Subjects: Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents