Category «Knowledge Management»

Digital Service Programs: Assessing Results and Coordinating with CIOs Can Improve Delivery of Federal Projects

Digital Service Programs: Assessing Results and Coordinating with Chief Information Officers Can Improve Delivery of Federal Projects, GAO-16-733T: Published: Jun 10, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 10, 2016. “In an effort to improve IT across the federal government, in March 2014 GSA established a team, known as 18F that provides IT services to agencies. In addition, …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Human Responsibility, Not Legal Personhood, for Nonhuman Animals

Cupp, Richard L., Focusing on Human Responsibility Rather than Legal Personhood for Nonhuman Animals (2016). 33 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 517 (2016); Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17. Available for download at SSRN. “This essay supports an emphasis on evolving standards of human responsibility for animals’ welfare and critiques the concept of legal …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Sunlight Foundation is using IFTTT to make the government more open

“Want to know when the president signs a bill into law? When congress votes on a bill? When a new legislator is representing you? Since 2014, The Sunlight Foundation has been connecting its massive trove of government data to IFTTT, the popular web service that connects things on the internet to other things…For those unfamiliar …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, E-Mail, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Social Media

Digital Communications and Innovations at CBO

Presentation by Deborah Kilroe, Associate Director for Communications at CBO, at the Fourth Annual Global Network of Parliamentary Budget Officers Assembly. “CBO continually strives to make its work more accessible on its website and social media platforms. This presentation provides an overview of the significant innovations that CBO has implemented in recent years to enhance …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

PubHub from Bing – portal for news publishers to submit their sites

Bing Blog: “In the era of push notifications and shared posts, publishers face constant pressure to get their content discovered and in front of as many readers as possible. To support the publishing community in a way that delivers on our users’ needs, we are launching the Bing News PubHub, a portal that enables more …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Distribution of Performance Ratings Across the Federal Government, 2013

Federal Workforce: Distribution of Performance Ratings Across the Federal Government, 2013, GAO-16-520R: Published: May 9, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 8, 2016. “In calendar year 2013 (the most recent data available at the time of our review), of approximately 1.2 million permanent, non-Senior Executive Service (SES) employees at the 24 Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act agencies, …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Combined Federal/State Disclosure and Election Directory 2016

“This Directory has been prepared as a guidebook to locate and identify organizations and individuals at the state and national level who have a responsibility to disclose information on money in politics.The term “money in politics” has been given a broad definition to include  federal and state campaign finance reports, lobby reports, personal financial statements, …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Strategic Technology strengthens the Capacity of Libraries to serve their Communities

BREEDING, Marshall (2016) Strategic Technology strengthens the Capacity of Libraries to serve their Communities. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2016 – Columbus, OH – Connections. Collaboration. Community in Session 137 – Information Technology. “In this era where libraries face enormous pressures in terms of inadequate funding and increasing demands for their services, technology plays a …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Muhammad Ali

David Remnick, Editor, The New Yorker – The Outsized Life of Muhammad Ali: “Ali, who died Friday, in Phoenix, at the age of seventy-four, was the most fantastical American figure of his era, a self-invented character of such physical wit, political defiance, global fame, and sheer originality that no novelist you might name would dare …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

How Descriptive Metadata Changes in the UNT Libraries’ Collections: A Case Study

Tarver, Hannah; Zavalina, Oksana; Phillips, Mark Edward; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Shakeri, Shadi. How Descriptive Metadata Changes in the UNT Libraries’ Collection: A Case Study. UNT Digital Library. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc406345/. Accessed June 3, 2016. “This paper reports results of an exploratory quantitative analysis of metadata versioning in a large-scale digital library hosted by University of North …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

State of Embedded Analytics Report 2016

“Logi Analytics, the leader in self-service analytics, today released findings from its fourth annual State of Embedded Analytics Report, [reg req’d] which found that the adoption rate of embedded analytics among business users is twice that of traditional BI tools. The report, which studied how organizations embed business intelligence and analytics inside their software applications, …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research