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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