[net-gold] UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT : GOVERNMENT: PUBLICATIONS : GOVERNMENT: DOCUMENTS : GOVERNMENT: BUDGETS AND BUDGETING : INFORMATION ACCESS: Notable Government Documents 2011 | Digital Diamonds and Budget Cuts
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- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 17:50:57 -0400 (EDT)
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UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT :
GOVERNMENT: PUBLICATIONS :
GOVERNMENT: DOCUMENTS :
GOVERNMENT: BUDGETS AND BUDGETING :
INFORMATION ACCESS:
Notable Government Documents 2011 |
Digital Diamonds and Budget Cuts
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Notable Government Documents 2011 |
Digital Diamonds and Budget Cuts
By David N. Griffiths
May 15, 2011
Library Journal
http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/890105-264/
notable_government_documents_2011_.html.csp
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3wzr2oc
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Digital projects continued to improve online access to U.S. government
information during the past year as the Government Printing Office (GPO)
implemented a federated search of a wide range of government information
resources, and its repository of online information passed key milestones.
Government bodies have produced born-digital content of extraordinary
value. However, these gains are tempered by the prospect of massive
federal budget cuts that will likely slow down progress.
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Tools we can use
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In October 2010, the GPO announced its implementation of MetaLib, a
federated search tool developed by library automation solutions vendor Ex
Libris. It enables users to retrieve documents, articles, and citations
from 52 federal information resources, including indexes, catalogs,
digital repositories, and subject gateways. Users may restrict their
searches to resources hosted by particular agencies or devoted to broad
themes. GPO will undoubtedly extend the reach of this tool, which is
already eminently valuable.
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Last year also marked GPOs completion of the migration of several million
documents from GPO Access (its first digital repository) to the Federal
Digital System (FDsys) and recognized the latter as its official system of
record for online government information. FDsys follows archival standards
that ensure long-term preservation, while verifying the authenticity of
the items it ingests through digital signatures. FDsys also provides bulk
download of its XML-based collections. In the future, this practice will
consume congressional documents automatically and serve as a tool for
harvesting metadata from federal websites. The content of this repository
may be accessed via Internet search engines, and GPO has invited libraries
to harvest its metadata.
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Digitization endeavors
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As Google and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) press on
toward their goal of digitizing one million to 1.5 million U.S. government
publications, many other entities are contributing important and often
unique content to the corpus of digitized government information. One new
project is especially notable. In January 2011, the John F. Kennedy
Presidential Library and Museum unveiled its Digital Archives of some
200,000 pages of text, 1500 photos, 300 museum artifacts, and 1250
recordings of speeches, meetings, and phone conversations. This makes it
the nations largest digitized presidential collection, and it continues to
grow.
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Budget battles loom large
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Unfortunately for most of us, all signs point toward substantial budget
cuts in FY12, which begins October 1, 2011. Outlays in the Republican
budget proposal are $200 billion below those in the Presidents 2012
proposed budget. Even a compromise between these proposals is likely to
hinder the work of enhancing access to government information.
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Dont count on the Census Bureau
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In response to the Presidents call for an aggressive, Government-wide
effort to curb non-essential administrative spending, Census Bureau
director Robert Groves eliminated the Statistical Compendia Branch (SCB)
and, with it, the print and online versions of Statistical Abstract of the
United States and other key reference works. Unless Congress funds the
SCB, the 130th edition of Statistical Abstractone of the most notable
documents of all timewill be the last published.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxx
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