Report: “USDA Migrates Data Archive to New Website, Dropping Cornell’s Mann Library”
From Reuters:
Archived crop and livestock reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture were set to transfer to a new government website on Wednesday with the agency’s existing online archive, hosted by Cornell University’s Mann Library, decommissioned, the USDA and a Cornell official said on Tuesday.
The USDA’s online Economics, Statistics and Market Information System, an archive of USDA reports dating to 1973, will move to the USDA’s National Agricultural Library.
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USDA announced in April that it planned to migrate its report archives from Cornell’s Mann Library and onto an alternative platform as a way to “modernize its processes,” without detailing what that would entail.
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