MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2016
From an LII Blog Post: Back in June we announced our involvement in taking over control of the popular Supreme Court audio website Oyez. We were a logical choice for Oyez because our missions of public access to the law aligned perfectly, and our affiliation with Cornell will provide both stability and notoriety for Oyez. That June […]
1. Facebook: Government Requests For Account Data Up 27% Globally During First Half of 2016 vs. Second Half of 2015 2. Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Comments on Text and Data Mining and Proposed EU Copyright Reform 3. NIST Asks Public to Help Future-Proof Electronic Information 4. Streaming Media: Facebook Introduces “Live Audio” 5. […]
Digital Preservation: Preservica Gets $3.8 Million in Funding From Mobeus Equity Partners
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News, Preservation
|From Geektime: Oxfordshire [UK]-based startup Preservica has scored $3.7 million (£3 million) from Mobeus Equity Partners for its digital information security technology. [Clip] They claim over 100 customers including an impressive list of clients: 16 US state archives, BT, HSBC, Transport for London (TfL), the Associated Press (AP), Yale University, and the Museum of Modern Art […]
From the U.S. Dept. of Education: Today, Federal Student Aid posted a series of updates to its FSA Data Center, the centralized online source for Federal Student Aid data. In addition to posting updates to the quarterly application, disbursement, and portfolio reports, Federal Student Aid released a preliminary report regarding the complaints, positive feedback cases, […]
The following article appears in the latest issue of The International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC). Title Citations for Software: Providing Identification, Access and Recognition for Research Software Authors Laura Soito University of New Mexico Lorraine J Hwang University of California, Davis Source The International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC) 2016, Vol. 11, No. 2 Abstract […]
A video recording of Katherine Maher’s recent presentation at Google HQ is now available online. The presentation runs fifty minutes. Katherine Maher is the the Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation. In this talk, she shared with us the challenges, mission and vision about Wikimedia Foundation, the parent organization of Wikipedia.org and it’s sister projects Katherine […]
From the University of Washington: Carl Bergstrom believes facts stand a fighting chance, especially if science has their back. A professor of biology at the University of Washington, he has used mathematical modeling to investigate the practice of science, and how science could be shaped by the biases and incentives inherent to human institutions. “Science […]
New Data: AAP Reports Childrens and Young Adult Hardback Books up 95.2% in July 2016 vs. July 2015
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|From the Association of American Publishers (AAP): Publisher net revenue is tracked monthly by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and includes sales data from more than 1,200 publishers (#AAPStats). Figures represent publishers’ net revenue for the U.S. (i.e. what publishers sell to bookstores, direct to consumer, online venues, etc.), and are not retailer/consumer sales […]
From the SF Examiner: More than a decade ago, the San Francisco Public Library unsuccessfully attempted to deploy radio frequency identification tags in books. Now, head librarian Luis Herrera is trying once again. Herrera disclosed the renewed effort for RFID during last week’s Library Commission hearing and promised to return with more details in the […]
From the U.S. Census: Utah’s population crossed the 3.0 million mark as it became the nation’s fastest-growing state over the last year. Its population increased 2.0 percent to 3.1 million from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2016, according to U.S. Census Bureau national and state population estimates released today. “States in the South and […]