The Trump administration is disappearing climate change data
Our friend from the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI), Gretchen Gehrke, just wrote an extremely important op-ed for The Hill. It is a succinct but powerful statement about what the Trump administration is doing to destroy the accessibility of federal data and the long-standing trust of the federal statistical ecosystem. I hope all of our […]
Sunsetting of the CIA World Factbook
The CIA and its predecessors have published some version of the World Factbook since 1943! However, according to a statement last week from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the historic and world-renowned publication World Factbook has been terminated and all previous versions have been removed from the CIA site. The CIA did not provide any […]
Data.gov beta front end released
A few days ago, data.gov announced the soft launch (unfortunately on LinkedIn, NOT on their own site, nor as an official press release 😐 ) of a new beta catalog frontend, and more significantly have a new in-house data aggregation process which exposes their harvesting process. The system provides visibility into how agency datasets are […]
Secrecy and Society call for Papers: “Subjugated Knowledges”
The journal Secrecy and Society — which is published by SJSU School of Information — has a special issue CFP for the upcoming issue titled “Subjugated Knowledges.” The issue is focused in the areas of history, policy, ethics, sociology, and politics and will explore the “disappearance of facts and data and their replacement by the […]
GPO and Library of Congress Digitize 10,000 Volumes of the United States Serial Set
Happy new year readers! Here’s a bit of good news in the midst of all of the craziness (as an aside, has our federal government gone insane?!). I just received a press release from the Government Publishing Office (GPO) that GPO and the Library of Congress have digitized 10,000 Volumes of the United States Serial […]