It looks like Google will be announcing a new public service, to live at research.google.com, where they’ll provide free hosting for large public data sets (per tech crunch and Wired).
While this strikes me as a great development, since increasing access to public information should only increase its usefullness and impact, this also raises questions to [...]
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Google Research and the Cloud
January 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: OpenHouse · cloud · google
Web Harvest Archive
December 4th, 2007 · No Comments
I’m glad to have just found the archive of old Web sites from members of Congress, maintained by the Center for Legislative Archives under the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
The collection seems well organized and easy to peruse, with solid explanations of their methodology and disclaimers about what’s available based on the crawling.
My main [...]
Tags: CLA · Congress · NARA · OpenHouse · archive · archivist · google · government websites · preservation · sitemap protocol · sitemapping
Sitemap Protocol
November 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Google has been working with federal agencies to help them ensure that their data are accessible through search engines. Many government databases providing critical information or statistics have existed for much longer than the current standards for public Internet accessibility, so the disconnect between search engines and public databases is understandable.
There is a clear [...]
Tags: OpenHouse · executive · google · government websites · openhouseproject · sitemaps
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