According to this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, the National Library of Medicine has created and published freely available standards, called the Journal Archiving and Interchange Document Type Definition (DTD), for the uniform digital publication and distribution of journal content.
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Daily Archives: June 12, 2003
Presentation on UCITA and UETA
Commercial Law for the New Commerce UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act) and UETA (Uniform Electronic Transactions Act) (PowerPoint) by Patricia Brumfield Fry, Visiting Professor of Law, Wm. Mitchell College of Law. Continue Reading
Survey of E-Government Issues From A Global Perspective
A compilation of studies from the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan, assembled and introduced by Joichi Ito, titled A Report of Research on Privacy for Electronic Government. As indicated in these documents (all in pdf), the development and implementation of electronic government systems in countries throughout the world must address issues related to their respective… Continue Reading
Grants Awarded for Homeland Security Info Gathering
Vivísimo, Inc. issued this press release today concerning nearly $1 million in grants awarded to the company to “enhance and modify [their] on-the-fly document clustering products to help intelligence analysts easily recognize patterns and identify trends from large amounts of unstructured data in many different languages.” Continue Reading
EPIC Files FOIA Lawsuit On Air Passenger Screening
According to this press release, on June 11 EPIC filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Department of Defense (DOD), under the Freedom of Information Act. The complaint seeks “the release of agency records concerning airline passenger screening procedures” (from the CAPPS II airline passenger profiling… Continue Reading
News About GPO Bookstore Closures
Via postings today on Law-Lib, the first from Judith C. Russell, the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, this important information on the status of the bookstores across the country, and the second from Marian Storck, Legal Information Specialist, U.S. Attorneys Office: “Essentially, the bookstore closures result from an overall decline in sales due… Continue Reading
