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Via DataInformed, Tam Harbert: “The White House has undertaken two major cloud and data initiatives to open up its data troves, Steven L. VanRoekel, U.S. federal CIO said: Through its cloud-first policy, the Administration is encouraging agencies to move more aggressively to using the cloud. Through the Federal Risk Authorization and Management Program (Fed RAMP) …
News release: “Total toxic air releases in 2011 declined 8 percent from 2010, mostly because of decreases in hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions, even while total releases of toxic chemicals increased for the second year in a row, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) annual Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) report published January 16, …
“The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) recently enhanced the U.S. Statutes at Large collection on FDsys by adding descriptive metadata for public laws, private laws, concurrent resolutions, and presidential proclamations. For approximately 32,000 individual documents, the enhancements allow researchers improved searchability and retrieval by searching such metadata fields as title, SuDocs classification number, date, category, …
“This National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding (Strategy) aims to strike the proper balance between sharing information with those who need it to keep our country safe and safeguarding it from those who would do us harm. While these two prioritiessharing and safeguardingare often seen as mutually exclusive, in reality they are mutually reinforcing. …
News release: “The Commission has launched an Open Data Strategy for Europe, which is expected to deliver a 40 billion boost to the EU’s economy each year. Europes public administrations are sitting on a goldmine of unrealised economic potential: the large volumes of information collected by numerous public authorities and services. Member States such as …
Equine Breakdown, Death, Injury and Incident Database. Search fields include: Horse Name; Year or Date; Trainer Last Name; Track; Jockey/Driver Last Name; Racing Type; Equine Deaths Only.
“You are entitled to a FREE credit report from each of the three credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) once every 12 months. You can request all three reports at once, or space them out throughout the year. It’s important to review your credit report to ensure that your personal information and financial accounts …
“At the direction of the House Appropriations Committee, and in support of the task force on bulk data established by House report 112-511, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is making House bills in XML format available through GPOs Federal Digital System (FDsys) Bulk Data repository, beginning with the 113th Congress. The FDsys Bulk Data …
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“The Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce the release of its Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series in a new e-book format that is readable on popular electronic devices such as the Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad. The e-book edition combines many of the benefits …
Jonathan Rubin, DigitalGov: “Looking back, its clear that 2012 was a big year for the First Fridays Usability Testing Program. Improving the user experience is our game, and thats what we spent the bulk of the year doing. Besides celebrating our second birthday (huzzah!), we conducted 26 tests on federal websites, mobile sites, intranets and …
The NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory – online Atomic Spectra Database “provides the most authoritative information about atomic spectra available anywhere, and it is used by researchers worldwide. But how wide, exactly, is that world? What elements and wavelengths are in highest demand by different groups? And how can the ASD better serve its user community? …
