MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2017
Dated November, 2016. Formally announced by the National Institute of Justice today. Title The Role of Technology in Youth Harassment Victimization Source National Institute of Justice/U.S. Dept. of Justice About the Report In a new bulletin, NIJ and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention examine the intersection of technology-involved harassment, in-person peer victimization, […]
Another U.S. Gov Resource No Longer Available: DHS Stops Publishing “Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report”
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, News, Publishing, Reports
|Another U.S. government research and news resource is gone. Since 2011, the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security has provided FREE public access to their “Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report.” Monday-Friday the report provided a curated selection of articles/links/summaries to open source articles about various areas of U.S. critical infrastructure. The report was organized into these categories: […]
The following article was recently published by PLOS One. Title Recent Themes in Social Networking Service Research Authors John S. Liu National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Mei Hsiu-Ching Ho National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Louis Y. Y. Lu Yuan Ze University, Chung-Li, Taoyuan, Taiwan Source PLoS ONE 12(1): e0170293 doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0170293 […]
From the American Archive of Public Broadcasting: Speaking and Protesting in America,” presents a diverse range of public radio and television content including radio programs, local news, raw footage, and interviews that reveal the profound impact of the First Amendment on American life. Focusing on our right to speak, assemble, and petition, this exhibit explores the […]
UPDATED 6:30 PM “Information Lockdown Hits Trump’s Federal Agencies” (via Politico) Approx. 2000 word article. Federal agencies are clamping down on public information and social media in the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency, limiting employees’ ability to issue news releases, tweet or otherwise communicate with the outside world, according to memos and sources from […]
1. Google Research on “Facilitating the Discovery Of Public Datasets” (via Google Research Blog) 2. New Estimate: Approx. 8.2 Million US Customers Have Purchased an Amazon Echo Device Since Late-2014 Introduction (via CIRP) See Also: More than 30 million ‘voice-first’ devices in US homes by year end [Report] (via Search Engine Land) 3. Patent Data: […]
The full report is available here (107 slides) and also embedded below. A web version is also available here. Data sources are provided. From The Next Web: Teaming up with social media help tool Hootsuite, the agency has crunched data from 238 countries to put together 106 pages of the latest stats and trends in the […]
From a Library of Congress Blog Post by Todd Harvey: Fans of folk music fire up your browsers! The second—and largest—phase of the Lomax family papers has just gone online at this link. This set of manuscripts joins ca. 25,000 items that went online last fall. Researchers now have access to nearly 300,000 manuscript pages that chronicle the work […]
The new white paper (posted Jan 23, 2017) comes from the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis. From the Introduction: This paper aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion about a national-infrastructure plan by highlighting three points relevant to communications, namely: 1. Improving the nation’s digital infrastructure should be a significant […]
Now Available: Results From COAR Survey of Research Data Management
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access
|From the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR): Research data management is wide ranging and there are already many organizations active in this area. In December 2016, COAR conducted a survey in order to get a better understanding of the needs of our members in the area of research data management. There were 43 responses […]