“This week, in conjunction with the release of the Obama Administration Open Data Policy, the interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) launched a new online tool that promises to accelerate research relating to climate change and human healththe Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health or MATCH. MATCH is a publicly accessible, online tool… Continue Reading
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PLUS Registry – Find and contact artists, rights-holders, licensors, licensees and archives
“The PLUS Registry is an online resource developed and operated cooperatively by a global Coalition of all communities engaged in creating, using, distributing and preserving images. Search the Registry to find rights and descriptive information (metadata) for any image, and to find current contact information for related creators, rights holders and institutions. Register for a… Continue Reading
Petition – Require free online permanent public access to ALL federal government information and publications
James R. Jacobs – Government Information Librarian – Stanford University: “…[we have created] a petition on the White House’s “We the People” petition site. If you believe in free permanent public access to authentic government information, we hope you’ll sign the petition. And if every one of the @2500 govdoc-l subscribers signs, posts to their… Continue Reading
A new training video on Advanced Searching of GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) is now available
“The video focuses on utilizing the FDsys Advanced Search function, using metadata to return precise results, and ways to further improve search results. The video is available on the beta Web site for FDLP.gov and on gpo.gov. Please note options for closed captioning, enlarging the video, and volume control from the menu in the bottom… Continue Reading
NISO Recommended Practices for Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials
“The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members have approved a new project to develop standardized bibliographic metadata and visual indicators to describe the accessibility of journal articles as well as potentially describe how open the item is. Many offerings are available from publishers under the banner of Open Access (OA), Increased Access, Public Access,… Continue Reading
Rebooting the Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed in the Digital Age
The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) independent study of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), Rebooting the Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed in the Digital Age, January 2013 “Over the past two decades, the shift from an industrial age to an information age has affected the way both public and private sector organizations… Continue Reading
America's Children and the Environment, Third Edition
“Americas Children and the Environment, Third Edition; Appendices to the Report (data tables, metadata, alignment of ACE3 indicators with Healthy People 2020 objectives) is an EPA report that presents key information on environmental stressors that can affect childrens health. In January 2013, EPA released an updated third edition of this report (ACE3) that shows the… Continue Reading
Space Data and Information Transfer Systems — Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories
Via OCLC – SO 16363:2012. Space Data and Information Transfer Systems (see authors link) Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories outlines actions a repository can take to be considered trustworthy, but research examining whether the repositorys designated community of users associates such actions with trustworthiness has been limited. Drawing from this ISO document and… Continue Reading
Enhancements to U.S. Statutes at Large on FDsys
“The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) recently enhanced the U.S. Statutes at Large collection on FDsys by adding descriptive metadata for public laws, private laws, concurrent resolutions, and presidential proclamations. For approximately 32,000 individual documents, the enhancements allow researchers improved searchability and retrieval by searching such metadata fields as title, SuDocs classification number, date, category,… Continue Reading
European Central Bank – Statistics Pocket Book December 2012
ECB Statistics Pocket Book December 2012: “Online access to data and metadata – “For series included in the Statistics Pocket Book, methodologies and descriptions of metadata are available in the ECBs Statistical Data Warehouse (SDW), at http://sdw.ecb.europa.eu. The latest available data for the series published in the Pocket Book are presented in a… Continue Reading
European Case Law Identifier (ECLI)
Via the European e-Justice Portal – “The European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) has been developed to facilitate the correct and unequivocal citation of judgments from European and national courts related to EU law. A set of uniform metadata will help to improve search facilities for case law. Before ECLI, it was difficult and time-consuming to… Continue Reading
Library of Congress Launches New Home Page
“The Law Library of Congress is pleased to announce a new homepage at http://loc.gov/law/. It is less text heavy, easier to scan, and includes a highlights carousel. Two of the most used products, Congress.gov and the Guide to Law Online, are prominently displayed. The @LawLibCongress Twitter stream is now on the homepage in the right… Continue Reading
