The British Library and Google have agreed that 250,000 out-of-copyright texts will be digitized at Google’s expense and made available at no charge on both the Library and Google Books websites. The scope is just a small fraction of the…
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Freeing Digitally Conceived Text, Part 1: The Federal Government as Documentation Authenticator, FDsys as a Trusted Repository, and the GPO as a Bulk Distributor of XML Files
06
Jul
For nearly 150 years, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been the official disseminator of Government documents and has assured users of their authenticity. The adoption of digital technology has changed the ways products are created, managed, and delivered…
The Internet Archive Now Wants to Preserve Physical Information
08
Jun
The Internet Archive has decided that physical books need to be preserved as much as digital information. Jared Keller writes about the project in the Atlantic. Brewster Kahle is quoted on the practice of the Archive’s digitization project, where once…
Redaction Failures in PACER
02
Jun
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy’s Timothy B. Lee states that “it’s safe to say there are thousands, and probably tens of thousands, of documents in PACER whose authors made unsuccessful attempts to conceal information” for technical reasons relating to…
Illinois Reports 1831 – 2011 RIP
01
Jun
The Illinois Supreme Court has adopted the public-domain electronic citation system for appellate opinions and discontinues publication of the official Illinois Reports and Illinois Appellate Reports. The contract for the official Illinois publications, currently held by West, expires July 31,…
