[Ecommerce] GPO and libraries on national digitization plan

[Manon Ress]

the goal: to digitize a complete collection of U.S. Government
publications to ensure that the digital collection is available, in the
public domain, for no-fee permanent public access through the FDL

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/about/reports/metadata.html

Report on the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation: Metadata
Specifications

REVISED: Report on the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation:
Metadata Specifications. June 2, 2005 (PDF 140 KB)

GPO is working with the library community on a national digitization
plan, with the goal of digitizing a complete legacy collection of
tangible U.S. Government publications. The objective is to ensure that
the digital collection is available, in the public domain, for no-fee
permanent public access through the FDLP.

The project will ensure that the collection is digitally reformatted for
preservation purposes. The digital preservation masters and the
associated metadata will be preserved in the GPO electronic archive (in
addition to any other places that the materials might be held), and
there will be no-fee public access to the content through derivative
files on GPO Access.

The Report on the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation: Metadata
Specifications is a summary of the second of two meetings held to assist
GPO in developing specifications for the digitization project. This
meeting, focusing on descriptive and preservation metadata, was held at
GPO on June 14, 2004. A summary of the overall discussion of the experts
and the necessary resources for the metadata package submission are
included in the report. Also included is a listing of metadata elements
that is not meant to be viewed as a final list of required metadata
elements, but a list of metadata elements, based on this discussion and
the recommended readings as put forth in the meeting. It provides a
common set of elements from which to build for digitization project.

The original report on the meeting was posted in April 2005 and the
public was encouraged to review the report and provide comments. The
revised report includes some minor corrections and additions.

The first meeting of experts on digitization and digital preservation
was held at the GPO in Washington, DC in March 2004. That meeting
brought together practicing experts in the field of digital format
conversion and digital project development to discuss the current
standards and specifications for the creation of digital objects for
preservation and to put forward a proposed set of minimum requirements
for digitizing documents for this project. The Report of the Meeting of
Experts on Digital Preservation: Digital Preservation Masters is located
at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/about/reports/preservation.html.
Original Document

Below, you will find a link to the original version of the document made
available during the comment period.

Report on the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation: Metadata
Specifications. Original Report, June 14, 2004 (PDF 140 KB)




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Manon Anne Ress
manon.ress@cptech.org,
www.cptech.org

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