Updates to “Grassroots Proceedings”
Thanks to Sharon Partridge and others, we've added even more content to our grassroots proceedings of the Spring 2005 Depository Library Council Meetings. As of today you will find new information on:
Tuesday's Plenary Session, National Collection Development session, and several subsessions of Tuesday's GPO Access Open Forum: PKI, RSS Feeds from GPO, and LC's new all-electronic LCSH list.
Wednesday's session on Authentication and Versioning Control
The depository community's picture of this meeting will become clearer and more complete as more reports are received from attending librarians. If you attended DLC and think we made a mistake, let us know in the comments field. We listen! Mere hours after Bill Sudduth let us know that he, and not a GPO staffer read a letter from Ridley Kessler, I corrected my blog highlighting the DLC open forum, and we put his name as reader in Sharon's notes, which did not name the reader. That's faster correction than you'll get in printed proceedings. Continue reading
Wednesday April 20th – Authentication and Version Control
To provide your own take on the Authentication & Version Control Session, please either comment below or send your notes and/or multimedia to dnlcornwall@alaska.net. Please let FGI know if we can use your name and affiliation.
The following notes were contributed by Sharon M. Partridge of the Jefferson County Public Library in Lakewood CO. Any hyperlinks were added by FGI staff.
All interpretations of documents and comments made are my own and do not reflect on my institution. These were typed on the day noted and subsequent days may have changed things. All mistakes are mine and feel free to post corrections.
The two programs I attended [on Wednesday] were on Authentication and Versioning
Authentication - There was so much confusion from Council because they hadn't been able to attend the demo of the PKI software that not much was accomplished until GPO could repeat the highlights of the demo. When asked how finely we want the authentication to appear, the answer was as finely as possible. Tables, graphs and chapters were considered a minimum. There was a lot of discussion about the difference between Authentic and Official in the certification. We felt that if we were having trouble, the patrons would have more and the definitions needed to be clearer and something explicit was needed to show which was the higher level of verification. Continue reading
Tuesday April 19th – RSS Feeds (from GPO)/GPO Bookstore
To provide your own take on the RSS Feeds/GPO Bookstore Session, please either comment below or send your notes and/or multimedia to dnlcornwall@alaska.net. Please let FGI know if we can use your name and affiliation.
The following notes were contributed by Sharon M. Partridge of the Jefferson County Public Library in Lakewood CO. Any hyperlinks were added by FGI staff.
All interpretations of documents and comments made are my own and do not reflect on my institution. These were typed on the day noted and subsequent days may have changed things. All mistakes are mine and feel free to post corrections.
RSS feed allows subscribers to a feed to get content as subscribers to a list-serv get email. It's easy to subscribe and unsubscribe and you can use different RSS readers as you can use different web browsers. Some are free and some aren't. We saw some GPO files seen through the different readers and they do look different. Lisa LaPlant, the presenter, said this is a personal preference as is choosing a search engine. Google has some RSS readers available for download but you don't have to have it on your desktop. It allows you to get updated information. For example your reader might search a news outlet for new content every half hour, if you were waiting for a news story. It would pop up on your screen if there had been a change. You can also customize this by subject. Alternatively, you can choose to have information automatically sent to you. This could include catalog records for lost docs, New Electronic Lists, or announcements from GPO. Continue reading
Tuesday April 19th – Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
To provide your own take on the PKI Session, please either comment below or send your notes and/or multimedia to dnlcornwall@alaska.net. Please let FGI know if we can use your name and affiliation.
The following notes were contributed by Sharon M. Partridge of the Jefferson County Public Library in Lakewood CO. Any hyperlinks were added by FGI staff.
All interpretations of documents and comments made are my own and do not reflect on my institution. These were typed on the day noted and subsequent days may have changed things. All mistakes are mine and feel free to post corrections.
PKI software shows a pop-up of Adobe and then a company called En Trust. Each time a document is pulled, En Trust checks the signature and makes sure that it is still a valid signatory. GPO can create their own logo and the language to explain what it is that they are validating (something like "This is an official government document and is certified by the Superintendent of Documents of the Government Printing Office." This language shows in a browse table under properties for the document. Continue reading
Tuesday April 19th – eLCSH
To provide your own take on the eLCSH Session, please either comment below or send your notes and/or multimedia to dnlcornwall@alaska.net. Please let FGI know if we can use your name and affiliation.
The following notes were contributed by Sharon M. Partridge of the Jefferson County Public Library in Lakewood CO. Any hyperlinks were added by FGI staff.
All interpretations of documents and comments made are my own and do not reflect on my institution. These were typed on the day noted and subsequent days may have changed things. All mistakes are mine and feel free to post corrections.
When LC notified GPO that they would be ready to print the new Subject Headings, GPO asked if it could have the electronic files and LC agreed. They looked at how they might be able to create an electronic version that would be better than the paper. They were hard at work testing this version when they realized that LCSH was going to be at the top of the Essential Titles survey. Continue reading