First in the nation state government podcast?
The Delaware Public Archives, part of the Delaware State Government does a podcast of its This Day in Delaware Historyseries. To my limited knowledge, this is the only state government sponsored podcast out there. Does anyone know of others? It would be nice if the Government Printing Office could start doing podcasts of either Bruce James or Judy Russell giving us a five minute rundown each week of new developments at GPO and/or the Federal Depository Library Program. Or even have the folks at the Office of Innovation and New Technology create a blog for them. Continue reading
Copyright Office adds RSS Feeds
The US Copyright Office is now offering RSS feeds for some of their pages: Currently they are offering feeds for these content areas: Copyright Office Home Page http://www.copyright.gov/rss.xml NewsNet http://www.copyright.gov/newsnet/rss.xml Federal Register http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/rss.xml Current Legislation http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/rss.xml Looking at their Federal Register feed I was pleased to see that it was limited to notices put out by the Copyright Office. This is a very helpful feature for people who don't wish to scan the entire Federal Register Table of Contents each day. Congrats to the Copyright Office for offering these features. May many other federal agencies follow. Especially with RSS feeds for new publications! Continue reading
GPO’s Future Digital System has a blog
As previously announced here and on govdoc-l by GPO staff, the Requirements Document and other documents related to the new Future Digital System have been posted to the GPO web site. Checking out where the documents were posted, I was impressed to find a blog linked off the main FDSys page. Good work GPO! At least your new Office of Innovation and New Technology is using communication tools of the 21st Century. Hopefully it will stay updated. I didn't see any content dated later than May 23, 2005. I'm surprised they didn't announce the blog at the time they announced the availability of the FDSys documents. But since they've announced the page that has a link to their blog, I don't feel bad about drawing attention to it. So, if you want to see what GPO has planned for the future, cruise on over to http://fdsys.blogspot.com/ and start reading and commenting! Continue reading
Map and Geographic Information Collections in Transition Powerpoint Available
Thanks to the Cartographic User Advisory Council for making the PowerPoint presentations of the
Map and Geographic Information Collections in Transition a conference organized by the Cartographic Users Advisory Council, Mumford Room, Library of Congress; May 12-13, 2005available on their web site barely two weeks after their conference closed. If you have any thoughts on the PowerPoint presentations, or were an attendee and wish to share your impressions, please use the comments link below. Continue reading
Quick Path to Legacy Digitization via Google Print?
Could the Google Print project be a fast track to digitizing the so-called legacy collection of Government Information? That's a thought that occurred to me while reading Joy Weese Moll's excellent summary of a Google Print presentation at the ACRL conference in the May 2005 issue of Walt Crawford's Cites and Insights. Ms. Moll quotes John Price Wilkin from the University of Michigan library on how Google Print works for them: John Price Wilkin, from the University of Michigan, began his presentation by stating, “Google has been a fantastic partner.†He confirmed that Google is using nondestructive methods of digitizing and that UM retains both the physical book and a digital copy, a preservation surrogate, of each book. Wilkin believes the primary responsibility of the library is to be the long term curator of the physical and digital material. The University gets a digital copy, identified by barcode. The scan is 600 dpi for print and 300 dpi for color/grayscale. The library specified the naming convention. The files have Optical Character Recognition. The quality is at least as good as what the University of Michigan had been doing for years on their digitization projects. Continue reading
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