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Daily Archives: April 30, 2018

New on LLRX – An Exploration of WikiLeaks: What has Taken Me So Long!

Via LLRX.comAn Exploration of WikiLeaks: What has Taken Me So Long! Sarah Gotschall explored WikiLeaks for a few hours and identified effective ways to search the site that include an efficient advanced search engine and search operators to target your research even further. She includes example of her searches and the results.

200,000 Volunteers Have Become the Fact Checkers of the Internet

NexrGov: The creation process of Wikipedia is largely transparent – “Founded in 2001, Wikipedia is on the verge of adulthood. It’s the world’s fifth-most popular website, with 46 million articles in 300 languages, while having less than 300 full-time employees. What makes it successful is the 200,000 volunteers who create it, said Katherine Maher, the… Continue Reading

New URL for Government Information Online (GIO) Service

Gwen Sinclair / GOVDOC-L: “I am pleased to announce that the Government Information Online virtual reference service has been relocated to a new site using GODORT’sLibAnswers and LibGuides subscription: https://godort.libguides.com/GIO. If you have linked to the previous site, http://govtinfo.org/, please update your link. A redirect will be placed on http://govtinfo.org/ to send traffic to https://godort.libguides.com/GIO… Continue Reading

Harvard’s Ash Center Launches New Repository of Government Data Visualizations and Maps

News release: “Data-Smart City Solutions, a program of Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, today launched a searchable public database comprising cutting-edge examples of public sector data use. The “Solutions Search” indexes interactive maps and visualizations, spanning civic issue areas such as transportation, public health, and housing, that are helping data… Continue Reading

25 Years Ago the Web Became Public Domain

Popular Mechanics: “Twenty-five years ago today, the World Wide Web announced that it was for everybody. On April 30, 1993, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) put the web into the public domain a decision that has fundamentally altered the past quarter-century. While the proto-internet dates back to the 1960s, the World Wide Web… Continue Reading

In Codice Ratio – research project delves into handwritten texts of Vatican Secret Archives

“In Codice Ratio is a research project that aims at developing novel methods and tools to support content analysis and knowledge discovery from large collections of historical documents. The goal is to provide humanities scholars with novel tools to conduct data-driven studies over large historical sources. The project concentrates on the collections of the Vatican… Continue Reading

Twitter Sold Data Access to Cambridge Analytica–Linked Researcher

Bloomberg: “Twitter Inc. sold data access to the Cambridge University academic who also obtained millions of Facebook Inc. users’ information that was later passed to a political consulting firm without the users’ consent. Aleksandr Kogan, who created a personality quiz on Facebook to harvest information later used by Cambridge Analytica, established his own commercial enterprise,… Continue Reading