GPO Digitization

Ted Priebe (GPO)

DLC Spring 2007 Meeting

Denver, CO

04.18.2007

 

http://origin.wwwgpoaccess.gov/legacy/

 

Initial Steps

• two meetings of experts
• survey of Depository community
• digitization specifications

 

Digital Demonstration Project = July 2006

• validation of GPO preservation/digitization specifications
• Jan 2007 = meeting for feedback

 

slides too fast here

 

Questions about scope to be digitization / metadata schema

 

Digitization General Assumptions

#3

Katrina access "good enough" for now, and replace with preservation copy later?

? Best if there's a tangible back-up. Also if value is primarily in the content, not the format.

 

Questions for Discussion

#1 (GPO's role apart from coordination?)

Barbie, U Virginia role to authenticate preservation-standard-level items digitized by other institutions.

Rick Davis seemed agreeable to that.

Bill Suddoth is the GPO digital registry looked at for giving CPO a sense of what's already out there?

Rick Davis seek to expand that registry. Need as SPO to be more proactive in soliciting participation.

Katrina it's broken and hard to update.

 

#2 (capture look of it currently (materiality), or publisher's original intent? are you losing any important information/value? does it make it easier to read or use (by being altered)?)

AR We need best possible accessibility. We can preserve look/feel or rare documents by other means.

Hemphill Content over character.

Evelyn Subject specialists can determine if specific documents need to be archivaly preserved for historical value.

 

#3 (is some content appropriate to different formats?)

Jeff, MO No.

Evelyn Access copy may not be good enough.

Katrina Yes, but it may not be GPO's responsibility to do it (value-added). Too much as a standard for GPO. Usable numeric data would be good.

Steve Hayes, ND Need to be careful. Look to the marketplace. Minimum to read it; we have a lot of unreadable microfische. Standard needs to be defined very carefully.

 

#4 (which prioritized?)

 

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