EPA quietly “decommissioning” its web archive
In another strike against access to public information and the historical record, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently announced that they will be “retiring” the EPA web archive on December 31, 2026. The Biden administration attempted to shut down the archive in 2022, citing “burdensome financial upkeep.” Thankfully, the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI), […]
Tale of digitization: “A review of California Indian Affairs : Hearing before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs”
I recently received an email from a faculty member of another university. They had found an interesting Congressional hearing/committee print from 1963 in Google Books entitled “A review of California Indian Affairs : Hearing before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session […]
Essential New Book! “Data Are Made, Not Found”
A new book by dana boyd provides an ethnographic study of the 2020 US Decennial Census.
Check out US gov graph network visualization of the US (and SF!) government. Thanks CivLab
Wow check out this very cool visualization of the federal govt (and SF city govt!) called US GOV GRAPH. CivLab has built a complete data model of the United States federal government – entities, positions, people, and the legal relationships between them. It shows every entity in all three branches of the federal government with […]
Future Knowledge podcast episode: The Fight for the Public Record
Check out the latest episode of the Future Knowledge podcast “The fight for the public record.” Hosted by the Internet Archive and the Authors Alliance, Future Knowledge “explores the intersection of technology, culture, and information policy with leading authors, scholars, and experts.” This episode is a conversation between Merrilee Proffitt (Democracy’s Library at the Internet […]