"Chat with GPO" Session on Authentication
Submitted by rtroyhorton on Thu, 2009-05-14 09:23.
Today I attended the "Chat with GPO" OPAL session, which focused on authentication and authentication for FDLP partners.Ted Priebe, GPO's Director of Library Planning & Development (LPD) and Lisa Russell, the Manager of LPD's Content Management unit presented material and answered questions.
Basically, LSCM wants to partner with Federal Depository Libraries and find ways to authenticate content hosted by the FDL partners. The digital signatures of authentication will indicate partnership with the FDL institution and the contact information for that institution. This is great news, especially for those FDLs also interested in hosting digital content in partnership with GPO.
The authentication session is archived on the GPO OPAL site.
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who's the FDL partner?
Thanks GPO for the OPAL session on authentication. I wasn't able to see the images on the slides in either Safari or Firefox. But the audio came through. Can anyone tell me who's the FDL who's currently partnering with GPO? What content are they authenticating? Curious minds want to know.
Partners not named
It's just an idea, as far as I remember. No specific partners named. Maybe they have some in mind or some have volunteered, but they didn't mention anyone. They were throwing it out there as a "plan" and wanted to get a feel for what we though I think. They said the content would be "digitized content from FDLs" or something to that effect. It was vague.
one partner mentioned
hmmm. listening to it again, it definitely sounds like there's 1 library already working as an authentication partner. I still want to know.
Maybe UNT? :-)
Ah, ok, I'm listening to it again and I do catch that now. Now I'm curious!
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