Jason Miller, Feds set plan to make data easier to find, Government Computer News, September 14, 2004. Excerpt: "Agencies have long set their own practices for presenting information to the public, but now the Office of Management and Budget wants everyone to get on the same page. The OMB-led Interagency Committee on Government Information is developing guidelines on how to organize, classify and present data to the public, either on the Web or through other electronic libraries....The E-Government Act of 2002 mandated that OMB draft a policy to help agencies do a better job of managing government information, from consolidating Web sites to improving records management. With that mandate in mind, OMB created the Interagency Committee on Government Information to implement Section 207 of the E-Government Act, which calls for standards to electronically categorize, publish and archive government information in a consistent format. The Categorization of Government Information Working Group is one of three committee groups developing guidelines related to E-Gov Act requirements." The public comment period on the Recommendation for Search Interoperability runs for about three more weeks. For details, see the OAN blog posting from 8/25/04.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/14/2004 02:14:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
