MORE POSTS FROM 2019
Regional Conference Hosted by Qatar National Library Highlights Importance of Documentary Heritage Preservation and Protection in the Arab Region
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|From UNESCO: Around 120 representatives from libraries and memory institutions from across the Middle East and North Africa joined international experts to discuss key issues relating to documentary heritage preservation in the region at a high-level conference, which was jointly organized by UNESCO Cluster Office for the Gulf States and Yemen and Qatar National Library […]
Research and Reference: DPLA Releases Preliminary Version of “The Impeachment Papers” Compendium of Documents
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|From the Digital Public Library of America: DPLA is proud to release this preliminary version of The Impeachment Papers: A Compendium of Documents Related to the Impeachment of President Donald J. Trump and The Report by the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Russian Active Measure Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election. These add to the […]
From NIST: How accurately do face recognition software tools identify people of varied sex, age and racial background? According to a new study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the answer depends on the algorithm at the heart of the system, the application that uses it and the data it’s fed — but […]
UPDATED POST: December 26, 2019 Fees Could Go Up For Historical Family Records (via NPR) –END UPDATE– From the CoSA Statement The Council of State Archivists (CoSA) opposes the proposed changes to the fees for accessing the historic public records of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS). These changes, outlined in the agency’s […]
From the Transactional Records Clearinghouse (TRAC)/Syracuse University: Despite assurances that the next release of data on Immigration Court proceedings by the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) would be reviewed for accuracy, the new data released late last Friday revealed continuing quality issues. In fact, even greater numbers of previously released records were inexplicably missing. […]
New Endowment to Support National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled; Digitization of Library’s Braille Music Scores and Instructional Materials is the First Initiative the Gift Will Fund
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|From the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled/Library of Congress: The Library of Congress today [12/18/2019] announced a major endowment in support of the work of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS). Established by Susan D. Diskin in honor of her late mother, the Tiby Diskin Memorial […]
The following article was recently published by PLoS One. Title A Study of the Impact of Data Sharing on Article Citations Using Journal Policies as a Natural Experiment Authors Garret Christensen U.S. Census Bureau Allan Dafoe University of Oxford Edward Miguel University of California, Berkeley Don A. Moore University of California, Berkeley Andrew K. Rose […]
From the U.S. Census: Today the U.S. Census Bureau released new 5-year estimates from the 2014-2018 American Community Survey (ACS). As part of the nationwide release of over 40 demographic topics, estimates profiling the 65 and older population are now available. Of the 3,142 counties in the United States, Sumter County, Fla., had the highest […]
From the Europeana Collections Blog: Over the last few months, for our Europe at Work season, we published lots of blogs and galleries exploring various aspects of industrial heritage. Now we’d like you to get involved and bring some colour to industrial heritage images! Our new colouring book features openly licensed cultural heritage material from eight museums, galleries and […]
From VSNU: The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), The Dutch Research Council (NWO) and information and analytics business Elsevier have reached a framework agreement. NWO President Stan Gielen: “This agreement is in accordance with Plan S and is a huge step towards 100% open access and […]