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Monthly Archives: September 2006

Registry of Digital Masters

CLIR: “A joint project of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and OCLC, the registry provides a trusted service for the communication, coordination, and discovery of information about digital masters, their production, and the availability of use copies. The registry includes both digitally reformatted and born-digital objects. Hosted by OCLC and developed on the basis of… Continue Reading

Student Financial Aid Records Target of FBI and Education Dept. Data Mining Project

Investigative work by students at the Medill School of Journalism has uncovered a joint FBI and Department of Education data mining program that reviewed the records of hundreds of students. The goal was purportedly to discern whether financial aid funding was used to advance terrorist efforts against the United States. Information about the student’s work… Continue Reading