News and New Resources Roundup
1. Privacy: EPIC and Center for Digital Democracy File Complaint With FTC Regarding Recent WhatsApp Policy Change
“EPIC and the Center for Digital Democracy have filed a complaint with the FTC concerning WhatsApp’s plan to transfer user data, including personal phone numbers, to Facebook.”
2. Data on the Web Best Practices Now a W3C Candidate Recommendation (August 30, 2016)
- W3C Blog Post
- Data on the Web Best Practices Document
- Data on the Web Best Practices: Dataset Usage Vocabulary
- Data on the Web Best Practices: Data Quality Vocabulary
3. Web Consortium Weighs Work on Block Chain Standards (via Fedscoop) and Full Text: Blockchains and the Web Report
4. Film Preservation: The Race to Save the Films We Love (via NY Times)
5. Penn Libraries’ New Penn Website Archive
6. View Online: Two Archived Webinars from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (Audio/Visual Metadata and Production Workflow)
7. Review of Recent ProQuest Ebooks Publishing Partnerships and Technology Enhancements
Filed under: Data Files, News, Preservation, Publishing, Roundup
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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