The 2011 NDIIPP/NDSA partners meeting of the Library of Congress assembled for the 6th time, this summer under the theme “Improvisations on the Stewardship of Digital Information.”
The Jefferson Institute became a founding member of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance this year, so it was a real thrill to dive in and discover what a driven group it is.
This year's primary election upsets in Alaska, Florida and Utah and the volatile Congressional campaigns currently underway -- all of which take place amid widespread voter discontent and the rise of the Tea Party movement -- illustrate the growing need for easily-accessible and easily-updated portals for political data and analysis.
You will love our powerful, intuitive Knight-funded data visualization toolkit: "VIDI". Go to the website and try it out!
The site includes Drupal modules and a playground where you can work with pre-loaded data or upload your own data and generate embed code to place the visualizations you create on your blogs or websites. A "My VIDI" page shows the history of a user's visualizations so they can go back and edit at will.
Cyber-security will be the new big obsession of our various security services for the next half century -- an obsession on par with the human and material resources that went into the nuclear threat in the last half century. The emergence of Information and Network Infrastructure Commands in military general staffs across NATO countries demonstrates that this is no rhetorical flourish.
A good friend of mine forwarded me this essay (PDF) from the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies, which presents an important set of ideas. Although it belittles intellectual property using straw man arguments, it does a nice job of assembling the array of "knowledge as public good" arguments.
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Kicking Off the Grant Process With Monitoring and Evaluation
