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GPO Gets OAIS Certification!

Congratulation to GPO for getting govinfo.gov certified as a Trusted Digital Repository! This is an important step for ensuring long term preservation and access to the contents of the GPO digital repository. The Government Publishing Office (GPO) announced today that it has received this certification. (For those unfamiliar with certification, check out the “core criteria […]

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Strategic Planning, Part I: A Workable Plan for GPO and FDLP

The GPO’s Office of the Superintendent of Documents released its National Plan for Access to U.S. Government Information: A Framework for a User-centric Service Approach To Permanent Public Access in February. Our colleague Shari Laster has written a really thorough overview and background of the document, so we will use this post to analyze the […]

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OAIS / TDR presentation

The slides and handout from my presentation this morning are now available here: http://freegovinfo.info/oais_tdr jim Continue reading

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OAIS / TDR presentation at FDLP

Here are the slides and a handout from my presentation on Monday October 17, 2011 about the OAIS and TDR standards.

From Production to Preservation to Access to Use: OAIS, TDR, and the FDLP Federal Depository Library Conference, October 2011 James A. Jacobs, Data Services Librarian, Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
A brief, non-technical introduction to the "Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System" (OAIS) and the "Audit And Certification Of Trustworthy Digital Repositories" (TDR) and their relevance to the Federal Depository Library Program. This presentation will put these important standards in the context of the life-cycle of government information -- from production to preservation to access to use. It will address the roles of key stakeholders -- government agencies, GPO, FDLP libraries, and users. It will examine FDLP policies and the strategies of individual libraries in the context of OAIS and TDR. Continue reading

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HathiTrust Certified as Trusted Repository by CRL

An important milestone for digital preservation of government information: CRL has completed its audit of HathiTrust, which contains digital copies of many printed government publications, and certified it as a "trusted repository." The audit uses the Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification checklist (TRAC), which is based on the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS).

(Full disclosure: I participated in the audit by providing technical support for the site visit and the assessment of HathiTrust repository systems and architecture.) Continue reading

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