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Available free, this listing (13 pages, PDF) of the Global 500 ranks each company for both 2005 and 2004, indicating country, market value and prices as of March 31, 2005. GE, ExxonMobil and Microsoft occupy positions 1, 2, and 3 respectively, and maintain these positions in the June 30 update, which notes the dramatic rise …
Judith C. Russell, Superintendent of Documents, today posted that “GPO’s Digitization Specification 3.0 is being distributed for review and comment. This specification (available in PDF) , will be used to support GPO’s plan to convert legacy U.S. government documents into preservation masters that will subsequently be used to creative derivative “access” files that support user …
As a follow-up to my April 2, 2005 posting, Significant Rise in Classification of Gov’t Docs Focus of New Reports, this July 3, 2005 New York Times article, Increase in the Number of Documents Classified by the Government, reports on growing concerns within the government, by advocacy groups and the media, about the rapid rise …
Press release: Topix.net, the Internet’s largest resource for online news with over 300,000 news channels, announced today that it has expanded its product offering to include a new dedicated news channel for Canada and local news for over 4,200 Canadian cities and towns – the first in a series of initiatives to bring local news …
Press release from the British Library: According to Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, “…by the year 2020, 40% of UK research monographs will be available in electronic format only, while a further 50% will be produced in both print and digital. A mere 10% of new titles will be available in print …
New australia.gov.au provides single entry point to the Australian Government: “Special Minister of State, Senator Eric Abetz…launched the Government’s new australia.gov.au website and said that it provided a single point of entry for people wanting to access government information and services. The new australia.gov.au site supports the Government’s commitment to improving access to quality government …
Text of Letter from Democratic House Judiciary Committee Members to Committee Chairmen Regarding the Downing Street Minutes (6/30/05) See also related links available in this posting: Downing Street Memo Continues to Provoke Responses from Hill and Media
Market Intelligence The Power of Three, by Donna Cavallini Review of Annotated Refugee Convention: Fifty Years of North American Jurisprudence, by Elisa Mason Using EISIL to Research Private International Law, by Louise Tsang Revolutionizing Client Relations with CaseMap’s New ReportBooks, by Dennis Kennedy Garbage In, Garbage Out: Working Around Document Profiling to Improve Work …
NewsForge has a detailed and very interesting posting on how a group of Italian attorneys have formed a consortium to facilitate the distribution of, and training programs about how to efficiently use open source applications for a range of document management applications as well as e-filing of court documents.
The Fading Memory of the State, by David Talbot, July 2005: “The official repository of retired U.S. government records is a boxy white building tucked into the woods of suburban College Park, MD. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is a subdued place, with researchers quietly thumbing through boxes of old census, diplomatic, or …
Press release: LexisNexis, University of Maryland Team Up to Preserve Images of U.S. Serial Set Maps: “The University of Maryland is providing the original maps so LexisNexis can rescan the collection into high-resolution digital images in color and black and white. Current scans taken from microfiche cannot provide the color or the same clarity as …
“American taxpayers spend nearly $100 million a year to fund the Congressional Research Service, a “think tank” that provides reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics relevant to current political events. Yet, these reports are not made available to the public in a way that they can be easily obtained. A project …
