Day archives: October 13th, 2025

Welcome to LIL’s Data.gov Archive Search

Harvard – “In February, the Library Innovation Lab announced its archive of the federal data clearinghouse Data.gov. Today, we’re pleased to share Data.gov Archive Search, an interface for exploring this important collection of government datasets. Our work builds on recent advancements in lightweight, browser-based querying to enable discovery of more than 311,000 datasets comprising some …

Subjects: E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

PromptLaw

Via Greg Siskind: What is Prompt.law? Prompt.law is an online platform where lawyers can find, create, and share AI-generated legal task prompts. Think of it as a “cookbook” of AI prompts designed specifically for legal professionals to streamline their work. Who can use Prompt.law? Prompt.law is designed for legal professionals, including attorneys, law firm staff, …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

Wired – no paywall: “With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would …

Subjects: Defense, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy, Transportation

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

The New York Times Gift Article: “County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes. A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Free Speech, Legal Research, Libraries

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 11, 2025

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 11, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

Re:Public is reporting stories about the lands that belong to all of us

A New Voice for America’s Public Lands – “America’s 660 million acres of public lands are one of our nation’s greatest treasures, vital for recreation, wildlife, clean water, and cultural heritage. But at the very moment when these lands face unprecedented pressure from deregulation, underfunding, and privatization, coverage of their future is vanishing from the …

Subjects: Climate Change, Congress, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The ONE Data Agent Explore health financing data

The ONE Data Agent™ uses AI to search tens of millions of data points on health financing. We use trusted global sources, including the WHO’s Global Health Expenditure Database and the OECD Creditor Reporting System. The data is curated and cleaned by ONE Data’s team of experts, enabling you to quickly and easily find relevant …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Government Documents, Health Care, Medicine, Search Engines

USAID’s education data has been preserved

What Works Hub: “When USAID terminated its education programmes in early 2025, it also removed public access to a rich collection of data on global learning outcomes – putting at risk two decades of work and hundreds of datasets. These datasets, critical to researchers, implementers and most importantly, decision-makers in each country, were nearly lost. …

Subjects: E-Records, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Search Engines

Does the news reflect what we die from?

Hannah Ritchie, Tuna Acisu, and Edouard Mathieu (2025) – “Does the news reflect what we die from?” Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from: ‘https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from‘ [Online Resource]. What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on? For this work, we relied on Media Cloud, an open-access …

Subjects: Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

Archive for Voice and Silence

Archive for Voice and Silence, a website that uses AI to track and map protests and activist movements around the world. The goal is to provide a clean, visual representation of these events for researchersA non-profit project mapping protests and civic actions globally. We aggregate publicly reported events to help researchers, journalists and communities understand …

Subjects: AI, Legal Research, Search Engines

FlightAware’s Misery Map

“FlightAware is a digital aviation company and operates the world’s largest flight tracking and data platform. With global connectivity to every segment of aviation, FlightAware provides over 10,000 aircraft operators and service providers as well as over 13,000,000 passengers with global flight tracking solutions, predictive technology, analytics, and decision-making tools. FlightAware receives data from air …

Subjects: Internet, Search Engines, Transportation