Canadian Association of Research Libraries Publishes Comments on Canada’s Open Government Initiative
Highlights from CARL’s submission to the consultation on Canada’s Open Government initiative:
- We believe that Open Data and Information should be consistently applied to government data and information.
- Open Data requires reliable data. We urge the Government of Canada to reinstate the more reliable and less-expensive mandatory long-form census.
- We hope that the proposed Virtual Library will enable access to, and ensure the preservation of, government publications.
Read the Complete Brief (4 pages; PDF)
Filed under: Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, News, Preservation
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. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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