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FDsys milestone: one billion objects delivered
On March 26, a visitor at the Government Printing Office’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) downloaded a Federal Register notice from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which was the one billionth object retrieved through the site. GPO’s FDsys: 1 billion items served and ready for more, By William Jackson, GCN (May 08, 2014).
Temporal Context in Digital Preservation
Temporal context is an important and much overlooked aspect of preservation. Users of preserved information need a way of using that information in its original context. Many born-digital documents are not isolated and complete in themselves, but are part of a network of documents. Providing temporal context means preserving the context of a document at […]
Examples of challenges of web-harvesting for digital preservation
Have you ever wondered why preserving web-published information is a complex task? Here are three examples of what makes “web harvesting” a difficult and inexact method of digital preservation. Keystone XL Pipeline: Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) To preserve this page intact, one would have to collect a total of 13 urls: 7 images, […]
Big Step for Public Access to Legislation
Daniel Schuman reports: “Earlier today, the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee made a major move towards improving public access to legislative information. In layman’s terms, the committee said that by the beginning of the next Congress information about the disposition of bills—where they are in the legislative process and who authored or co-sponsored the legislation—will […]
Photographs and images from the government
Government “documents” come in all shapes and sizes and formats. I have never delved much into images available from government agencies, but there are a lot and it is increasingly easy to find collections of them. The current (April 4, 2014 — Volume 20, Number 13) edition of The Scout Report, for example, describes the […]
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