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Notable Government Documents of 2012 (Federal, State and Local) – determined by the ALA/GODORT PANEL “While the 2012 presidential campaign raged, and the brink of the fiscal cliff loomed large, government information continued to be disseminated unabated. One year ago, there was a great hue and cry because the 2012 edition of the Statistical Abstract …
New York Times on-going reporting: Obama Calls Surveillance Programs Legal and Limited (June 8, 2013) In U.S., News of Surveillance Effort Is Met With Some Concern but Little Surprise (June 8, 2013) Administration Says Mining of Data Is Crucial to Fight Terror (June 8, 2013) News of U.S. Surveillance Draws Anger of Activists and Militants …
Follow up to previous postings: UK Guardian – Verizon forced to hand over telephone data – full court ruling; EPIC: Sweeping NSA Domestic Surveillance Order Approved Without Any Ties to Foreign Intelligence Collection and EPIC – Congress Begins Investigation of NSA Domestic Surveillance Program see: DNI Statement on Recent Unauthorized Disclosures of Classified Information, June …
Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’ By Daniel J. Solove Most attempts to understand privacy do so by attempting to locate its essence—its core characteristics or the common denominator that links together the various things we classify under the rubric of “privacy.” Privacy, however, is too complex a concept to be reduced …
Collaborate.org “Collaborate.org combines an integrated suite of collaboration tools coupled with all of the world’s geospatial data at your fingertips.”Collaborate.org [from Intelesense Technologies] is a cloud based big data application that currently offers its members features including: Customizable dashboards that can provide easy configuration of the features that matter to the groups who operate a …
Smartphone Ownership 2013, by Aaron Smith, June 5, 2013 “For the first time since the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project began systematically tracking smartphone adoption, a majority of Americans now own a smartphone of some kind. Our definition of a smartphone owner includes anyone who says “yes” to one—or both—of the following …
The Global Information Technology Report 2013 – Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Soumitra Dutta, and Bruno Lanvin, Editors: “The Global Information Technology Report 2013 features the latest results of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), offering an overview of the current state of information and communication technologies (ICTs) readiness in the world. …
“So, how confident are Fed IT professionals in their agencies’ DR2 capabilities? How ready and resilient are the systems, and do agencies verify by testing? To find out, MeriTalk surveyed 150 Federal DoD and civilian IT professionals in December 2012. The Disaster Unpreparedness report reveals that few agencies are actually prepared to recover their data in …
News release: “The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of a new recommended practice, Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics (IOTA): Recommendations for Link Resolver Providers (NISO RP-21-2013). These recommendations are the result of a three-year study performed by the NISO IOTA Working Group in which millions of OpenURLs were analyzed and a Completeness Index was developed …
Alan Travis, home affairs editor, The Guardian: “The five biggest internet companies in the world, including Google and Facebook, have privately delivered a thinly veiled warning to the home secretary, Theresa May, that they will not voluntarily co-operate with the “snooper’s charter”. In a leaked letter to the home secretary that is also signed by …
“Kurt De Belder, University Librarian at Leiden University, and Director of University of Leiden Libraries and of Leiden University Press, spoke at OCLC headquarters in Dublin, Ohio on 10 May 2013 as part of the OCLC Research Distinguished Seminar Series. In this presentation, Kurt discusses the fundamental transformation of the academic (research/university) library and explores the …
News release: ‘Three out of four travelers (75 percent) who use public transportation in some of the world’s major cities believe that electronic ticketing would make travel easier, and an overwhelming 92 percent would welcome paperless travel, a new global survey by Accenture reveals. The survey of 4,500 urban travelers in nine major cities in …
