http://gcn.com/rss-feeds/data-mgt.aspx The GCN Lab takes a look inside five mail servers and finds they all have their strengths and weaknesses — and Exchange still rules the roost. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/30/lab-review-mail-servers.aspx Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/30/lab-review-mail-servers.aspx Over the years, the American public has been gifted with its share of computer-based turkeys -- information technology projects gone wrong, often at spectacular expense. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/20/it-turkeys-7-government-projects-gone-wrong.aspx Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/20/it-turkeys-7-government-projects-gone-wrong.aspx The Defense Department is modernizing its cryptographic key fill technology, replacing its currently used yet obsolete KYK-13 devices with Really Simple Key Loader from Sypris Electronics. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/12/dod-cryptographic-key.aspx Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:31:57 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/12/dod-cryptographic-key.aspx http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/09/linked-government-data-sidebar-01-resources.aspx Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/09/linked-government-data-sidebar-01-resources.aspx Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the Web, wants to create a worldwide Web database, and he wants government agencies to lead the way. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/09/linked-government-data-feature.aspx Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/09/linked-government-data-feature.aspx Ensuring the quality of tools used and work done in forensic analysis is critical, and NIST has issued a report that could help in he task of validating them. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/09/nist-mobile-forensics-110909.aspx Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/09/nist-mobile-forensics-110909.aspx At least one transparency advocacy group says PDF, championed by Adobe, inhibits the easy re-use of data. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/03/sunlight-adobe-tussle.aspx Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:50:12 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/11/03/sunlight-adobe-tussle.aspx Although the Social Security Administration's IT infrastructure is providing reliable service to state and federal agencies, internal pressures and continued growth in demand for data make planning for the future imperative, GAO says. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/21/ssa-data-exchange-improvements.aspx Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/21/ssa-data-exchange-improvements.aspx The Defense Interoperability Test Command has certified a records management module from Alfresco that runs in the background of each user's computer, rather than running as a separate application. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/20/dod-alfresco-records-management-app.aspx Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:48:21 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/20/dod-alfresco-records-management-app.aspx The IRS recorded more than 51,000 cases of taxpayer identity theft in 2008 and paid out $15 million in fraudulent refunds, and a GAO report finds that internal information security weaknesses constitute some of the most significant challenges faced by the agency. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/13/gao-report-irs-identity-theft.aspx Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:16:08 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/13/gao-report-irs-identity-theft.aspx Data.gov, a one-stop shop for raw government data feeds, was set up in two months, giving visitors access to government information, with the possibility that they would reuse the data. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/12/gcn-awards-datagov.aspx Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/12/gcn-awards-datagov.aspx The BagIt specification was developed to provide a standard package format that could be used to simplify transfer of large files between institutions that gather and preserve digital data. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/12/gcn-awards-loc-sidebar-bagit.aspx Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/12/gcn-awards-loc-sidebar-bagit.aspx The Army’s MC4 program is doing away with paper battlefield medical records and improving health care for wounded warriors. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/12/gcn-awards-army-mc4.aspx Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/12/gcn-awards-army-mc4.aspx Preserving millions of physical items in LOC collections and the terabytes of new data being produced so that they will be accessible in a digital future. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/12/gcn-awards-loc-project-at-a-glance.aspx Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/12/gcn-awards-loc-project-at-a-glance.aspx With more than 100 million physical items already in its collections and new digital material coming in by the terabyte, the Library of Congress is developing standards, specifications and tools to help ensure that this material remains accessible to future generations. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/12/gcn-awards-loc-digital-preservation.aspx Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/12/gcn-awards-loc-digital-preservation.aspx State and local governments should ramp up efforts to become more transparent, organization contends. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/07/states-urged-to-create-data-catalogs.aspx Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/07/states-urged-to-create-data-catalogs.aspx Hundreds of thousands of Holocaust-related records are now searchable online through a National Archives and Records Administration project. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/09/30/policy-holocaust-digital-collection.aspx Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:39:36 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/09/30/policy-holocaust-digital-collection.aspx Some DOD organizations have been sending IT hardware away for reuse without properly scrubbing sensitive data first, IG finds. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/09/30/inspector-general-audit.aspx Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:21:49 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/09/30/inspector-general-audit.aspx HP unveils four imaging products designed with the public sector in mind. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/09/24/hp-unveils-imaging-products.aspx Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/09/24/hp-unveils-imaging-products.aspx While building out publicly facing data repositories, government agencies should separate the user interface layer from the data being presented, the World Wide Web Consortium says in a draft report on maintaining open government data. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/09/18/w3c-egov-open-government-data.aspx Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://gcn.com/articles/2009/09/18/w3c-egov-open-government-data.aspx