News release: “[September 19, 2015], EPA is issuing a notice of violation (NOV) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, and Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (collectively referred to as Volkswagen). The NOV alleges that four-cylinder Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars from model years 2009-2015 include software that circumvents EPA emissions… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Investigative report details destruction of Canadian government documents
MacLean’s – Vanishing Canada: Why we’re all losers in Ottawa’s war on data – Records deleted, burned, tossed in Dumpsters. A Maclean’s investigation on the crisis in government data, by Anne Kingston, September 18, 2015. “A months-long Maclean’s investigation, which includes interviews with dozens of academics, scientists, statisticians, economists and librarians, has found that the… Continue Reading
Data – California drought will worsen in coming years
OnEarth: “California’s current three-year drought seems terrible, but everything is relative. The moist, lush California we’re used to represents a moment in time—a golden age for the Golden State. A millennium ago, its droughts were longer, drier, and more damaging than anything the United States has seen in its short lifetime. And those massive droughts… Continue Reading
USDA Seeks Input on New Report on Climate Change and Food Security
“On Tuesday, September 8, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a draft of the interagency assessment report, “Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System” in the Federal Register. USDA is requesting input from the public through October 8, and will publish the final report online when it becomes available. While the… Continue Reading
24/7 Wall St. identifies the largest industry in each state
“Over the first half of this year, the U.S. economy generated slightly more than $17.9 trillion in goods and services, up $286 billion from the previous six months. The nation’s economy is driven by a wide array of industries, and every state in the country contributes billions of dollars to the national GDP.Real estate is… Continue Reading
USPTO PatentsView Beta
“PatentsView is a prototype patent data visualization and analysis platform intended to increase the value, utility, and transparency of US patent data. The initiative is supported by the Office of Chief Economist in the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), with additional support from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). The PatentsView initiative was established… Continue Reading
White Paper of the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions
Considering the Scholarly Edition in the Digital Age: A White Paper of the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions “This white paper is intended as a tool for thinking through a set of pressing questions for the MLA’s Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE) and as a contextualized expression of our current responses to those… Continue Reading
Webinar: The Evolving Scholarly Record: Scope, Stakeholders and Stewardship
“The scholarly record is increasingly digital and networked, while at the same time expanding in both the volume and diversity of the material it contains. The long-term future of the scholarly record cannot be effectively secured with traditional stewardship models developed for print materials. View this webinar recording (coming soon!) to learn more about the… Continue Reading
ANONIZE: A Large-Scale Anonymous Survey System
ANONIZE: A Large-Scale Anonymous Survey System – Susan Hohenberger Johns Hopkins University; Steven Myers Indiana University; abhi shelat University of Virginia; Rafael Pass Cornell University. “A secure ad-hoc survey scheme enables a survey authority to independently (with- out any interaction) select an ad-hoc group of registered users based only on their identities (e.g., their email… Continue Reading
Ship strikes a leading cause of Whale mortality
“Large whales are vulnerable to collisions with all vessel types, sizes, and classes throughout the world’s oceans. In California, ship strikes of gray whales are the most commonly reported followed by fin, blue, humpback, and sperm whales. When large vessels such as container ships are involved, the ships crew may be unaware a strike has… Continue Reading
News for Journalists – Introducing Signal for Facebook and Instagram
News release: “We’ve heard from journalists that they want an easy way to make Facebook a more vital part of their news gathering with the ability to surface relevant trends, photos, videos, and posts on Facebook and Instagram for use in their storytelling and reporting. Today we’re excited to introduce Signal, for Facebook and Instagram,… Continue Reading
The rise and fall of text on the Web: a quantitative study of Web archives
Cocciolo, A. (2015). The rise and fall of text on the Web: a quantitative study of Web archives. Information Research, 20(3), paper 682. Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/20-3/paper682.html (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6bIKsJbMJ) “Introduction. This study addresses the following research question: is the use of text on the World Wide Web declining? If so, when did it… Continue Reading
