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News release: “The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of UC will be made available to the public at no charge. “The Academic Council’s adoption of this policy on July 24, 2013, came after a six-year …
CRS – Retaining and Preserving Federal Records in a Digital Environment: Background and Issues for Congress – Wendy Ginsberg, Analyst in American National Government. July 26, 2013 “All federal departments and agencies create federal records “in connection with the transaction of public business.” The Federal Records Act, as amended (44 U.S.C. Chapters 21, 29, 31, …
International Criminal Court (ICC): “The Legal Tools are the leading information services on international criminal law. They equip users with legal information, digests and an application to work more effectively with core international crimes cases (involving war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide or aggression). By being freely available in the public commons, the Tools democratize …
Skin in the Game as a Required Heuristic for Acting Under Uncertainty, Constantine Sandis, Oxford Brooks; Nassim Nicholas Taleb, NYU-Poly; Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne – Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne (CES). July 25, 2013. “We propose a global and morally mandatory heuristic that anyone involved in an action which can possibly generate harm for others, …
“The American legal profession, the nation’s law schools, and the American Bar Association have collaborated over several generations to create a system of legal education that is widely envied around the world. At present, the system faces considerable pressure prompted by rising tuition, large amounts of student debt, falling applications, and limited availability of jobs …
Facilitating Better Law Teaching, Martin Katz – University of Denver Sturm College of Law – August 2, 2013 Emory Law Journal, Vol. 62, No. 823, 2013 U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-37 “This Essay is about solutions – real solutions that law schools can deploy right now to improve the education we provide. …
“We just added over 50,000 new words to Wolfram|Alpha’s dictionary, including archaic words such as pythonist (a conjurer or diviner) and technical terms like cosmochronometer, which refers to processes that are used to determine the age of stars (like radioactive decay). Wolfram|Alpha provides word definitions and, when available, other features such as etymologies and anagrams—pythonist, …
Office of Inspector General, Report No. IG-13-021, July 29, 2013: “NASA’s Progress in Adopting Cloud-Computing Technologies, July 29, 2013: “NASA was a pioneer in cloud computing having established its own private cloud- computing data center called Nebula in 2009 at the Ames Research Center (Ames). Nebula provided high-capacity computing and data storage services to NASA …
Follow up to previous postings on Aaron Swartz, see this Report to the President: – “MIT and the Prosecution of Aaron Swartz: “In January 2013, MIT President L. Rafael Reif asked Professor Hal Abelson to lead a thorough analysis of MIT’s involvement in the Aaron Swartz matter, from the time that MIT first perceived unusual …
Measuring the full impact of digital capital July 2013 | byJacques Bughin and James Manyika “On July 31, 2013, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis will release, for the first time, GDP figures categorizing research and development as fixed investment. It will join software in a new category called intellectual-property products. In our knowledge-based economy, this is a sensible …
Cool Tools at American Association of Law Libraries Event. Sean Doherty, Law Technology News, July 22, 2013. “The American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting & Conference finished up on Tuesday. The event had ninety exhibitors who presented their products and services to the law library community at the Washington State Convention Center. Here’s the …
“Written by Ixchel Faniel, OCLC Research; Eric Kansa, University of California Berkeley, School of Information; Sarah Whitcher Kansa, The Alexandria Archive Institute; Julianna Barrera-Gomez, OCLC Research; and Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan, School of Information, “The Challenges of Digging Data: A Study of Context in Archaeological Data Reuse” appears in JCDL 2013 Proceedings of the …
