en.europa-eu-audience

New Guidelines: CrossRef DOIs to be Displayed as URLS

To read on

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september11/09inbrief.html#MEYER

An italian initiative: The senators have access, via e-book, to the government transcripts.

http://scribaebookmake.sourceforge.net/

This is a software to create ebook

It was developed by the Italian Government for the Senate.

 

Mobile and not only smartphone

Mobile is not just apps and websites, it includes SMS or text messaging. Here’s some new text use data from Pew Internet & American Life.

Some 83% of American adults own cell phones and three-quarters of them (73%) send and receive text messages.–Pew

 

Read more on

http://blog.citizen.apps.gov/howtomobile/2011/09/20/trends-on-tuesday-text-vs-voice/

The Language Interoperability Portfolio

Linport Project

The Language Interoperability Portfolio (Linport)is a free format for packaging translation materials. The rationale is to specify an open, vendor-independent format that can be used by different programs.This rationale is similar to that of the Internet Message Format: one specification that has been implemented by many systems.

1st Linport Symposium

27 September 2011, Luxembourg

Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission

Linport half-day informational working group meeting

10 October 2011, Santa Clara, California

Hosted by GALA in conjunction with Localization World Conference & Exhibits • More details…

• Current Work
• How to get involved with Linport
• Supporting organizations
• About
• Contact: info @linport.org

 

White House offers “We the People” online petitions at WhiteHouse.gov

Sources :

http://www.egov.vic.gov.au/focus-on-countries/north-and-south-america-and-the-caribbean/united-states/trends-and-issues-united-states/e-democracy-united-states/white-house-offers-we-the-people-online-petitions-at-whitehouse-gov.html

 

http://gov20.govfresh.com/white-house-offers-we-the-people-online-petitions-at-whitehouse-gov/