NPR: “Recently, my truck was stolen, forcing me to get some new wheels. And, for the first time in my life, I’ve been looking to buy a new car. The process has involved hours of searching. Painful haggling. And encounters with many dealerships that, quite frankly, have been downright duplicitous. The whole thing has been… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Knowledge Management
10 books you should read before you start law school
Law Cheek: “From legal laughs and history to advice on winning arguments and understanding the City. As law school looms large for many, Legal Cheek shares some law-related literary classics and useful handbooks that will help newbies learn more about the legal sector and being a lawyer.” Continue Reading
The Best RSS Feed Readers for Streamlining the Internet
WIRED: The Best RSS Feed Readers for Streamlining the Internet – “RSS has been around awhile now, so there are a lot of very good RSS readers out there. Most of them feature built-in search and suggestions, so you don’t have to go hunting for feeds yourself. You just might discover some cool new sites… Continue Reading
LTRC Roundtable Discussion: Personal Knowledge Management
“As the name implies, Personal Knowledge Management is about collecting and managing information that is important to you personally, not necessarily research or other resources you might gather for your firm’s use. This roundtable highlights useful tools for personal management from legal professionals. Our Panelists: Tom Mighell (TM), Dennis Kennedy (DK), Allison Shields (AS), Alan… Continue Reading
IPUMS Complete Count Data (1790-1940)
“IPUMS USA makes freely available to researchers worldwide complete count U.S. Census microdata through 1940. This dataset includes over 650 million individual-level (1850-1940) and 7.5 million household-level records (1790-1840). The microdata represents the fruition of longstanding collaborations between IPUMS and the nation’s two largest genealogical organizations —Ancestry.com and FamilySearch— to leverage genealogical data for scientific… Continue Reading
How Google Remapped the World: The Tech Behind
WSJ Video [8 minutes – no fee]: ” An extensive database of imagery and information is used to create accurate maps. Google Maps has transformed the way that we navigate the world, make decisions, and think about our privacy in the 17 years since its launch. Here’s an inside look at how it works and… Continue Reading
The Archive Of A Vanishing World
Noema – Archives de la Planète: “PARIS — Line 10 of the Paris Métro terminates almost five miles west of the center of the city at Boulogne-Pont de Saint-Cloud. The station is a polished hub in one of the wealthiest regions of Paris, not to mention all of France. Boulogne-Billancourt is the birthplace of France’s… Continue Reading
Data Mining Resources 2022
Via LLRX – Data Mining Resources 2022 – Data mining and knowledge discovery is a quickly evolving field that is part of the portfolio of CI, BI and KM professionals, law librarians, research analysts, infopros, data scientists, data journalists and students in college and graduate programs. This expansive bibliography by Marcus P. Zillman comprises a… Continue Reading
PDF24 Tools
Free and easy-to-use online PDF tools that make you more productive:”PDF24 offers you a collection of tools that you can use to work productively with PDFs and other files. The PDF24 tools leave nothing to be desired. There is hardly anything in the PDF area that you cannot do with PDF24. The PDF24 tools were… Continue Reading
Open Library Project
“One web page for every book ever published. It’s a lofty but achievable goal. To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to building the site. To date, we have gathered over 20 million records… Continue Reading
NARA’s Digital Preservation Framework Goes Live as Linked Open Dataset
WASHINGTON, August 25, 2022 — “Beginning today, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is making its Digital Preservation Framework available as a Linked Open Dataset, a first for the agency. Aimed at sharing NARA’s research with digital preservation professionals around the world, the dataset expands access that was previously available only through GitHub. Linked… Continue Reading
US government to make all research it funds open access on publication
Ars Technica: “Many federal policy changes are well known before they are announced. Hints in speeches, leaks, and early access to reporters at major publications all serve to pave the ground for the eventual confirmation. But on Thursday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) dropped a big one that seemed to… Continue Reading
