This should have a positive impact on companies trying to extract data from Ancestry’s website and other sources of genealogy information Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals is the latest …
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Web Scraping Is Legal, US Appeals Court Reaffirms
This should have a positive impact on companies trying to extract data from Ancestry’s website and other sources of genealogy information Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals is the latest …
U.S. Census Bureau Launches New My Community Explorer Tool
The following is a press release issued by the U.S. Census Bureau: Today the U.S. Census Bureau launched its latest data explorer tool, My Community Explorer (MCE). MCE is an interactive map-based tool that highlights demographic and socioeconomic data that measure inequality and can help inform data-based solutions. This tool is designed to help users identify underserved …