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This law.com article reviews the two major applications under consideration as standards for electronically archiving court documents: “Portable Document Format (PDF) designed especially for long-term archiving, called PDF-Archive or PDF-A. The second format is Extensible Markup Language (XML).”
The Kojo Nnamdi Show on public radio station WAMU in Washington, D.C. broadcast a segment on Tuesday, February 11 titled, Browsers and Search Engines, in which computer technology experts presented their views on the best search engines and browsers. This link comes via Pete Basofin.
From the press release: Now available via GPO Access are the 1986 to 2000 compilations of the List of CFR Sections Affected (LSA). These compilations are divided into four volumes broken down as follows, with each of the volumes covering the years 1986 through 2000: Volume I: Titles 1-16, Volume II: Titles 17-27, Volume III: …
Stuart Urwin has launched a new online service for librarians and information professionals that provides a fully searchable current awareness database of association meetings, exhibitions and trade shows, book fairs, and training courses. The site is called Library Events, and also offers a free monthly newsletter update.
This ACLU press release contends that the recently released draft of what has been dubbed Patriot II, tentatively titled the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, will erode basic constitutional civil liberties. Also see this OMB Watch analysis of how the Patriot II legislation will impact the public’s right to know.
The music and film industries are expanding their crusade against file-swapping from college campuses to corporate cubicles. See this RIAA press release, dated February 13. As part of their effort, they are distributing a publication titled, A Corporate Policy Guide to Copyright Use and Security on the Internet (PDF) to Fortune 1000 companies.
Verizon has requested a stay in Judge John D. Bates’ (United States District Court for the District of Columbia) ruling in favor of RIAA, compelling Verizon to release personal customer data on a subscriber who downloaded copyrighted music. See my previous post on this issue here.
This Business Week article details the choices available for e-filing, as well as associated costs and challenges involved in this process. See also these related articles: Free tax E-filing may not be so easy and IRS regroups on business filing.
Microsoft appealed to the 4th Circuit to reverse a lower court decision forcing the company to include Java programming language in new releases of Windows XP. See my previous posts on this issue here, here and here.
The Center for Democracy and Technolgy (CDT) filed an amicus brief (PDF) in the Supreme Court on February 10 in the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) case, supporting the lower court decision (210 F. Supp 2d 401) overturning the requirement that federally funded libraries must filter Internet access to patrons. See also the library of …
According to Mary Alice Baish, Associate Washington Affairs Representative, American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), there are more than 30 organizations who support providing public access to all CRS reports on the Internet. Please see Senate Resolution 54, submitted by Senators Leahy, Lieberman, and Harkin, “…to make Congressional Research Service, CRS, reports, and other Senate …
The efforts of Senators Ron Wyden and Harry Reid to block the progress of the Total Information Awareness surveillance program through an amendment (S. 59) added to the omnibus spending bill to discontinue its funding, have been successful. For additional information on this legislation and the Democratic-led initiative to terminate this government sponsored data mining …
