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
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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
Tuesday April 19th – National Collection
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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.
National Collection - This may be housed in multiple sites within and without the government but it will be one collection. GPO has already begun acquiring documents, including a complete Serial Set. They are getting two copies of everything printed including things that are not in FDLP (these might include internal documents and classified documents). They may begin mining from NARA's digital holdings. Preservation efforts will meet all of the recognized standards for the various formats. The criteria to be an alternative site are that they be at least 600 miles apart, not in flood zone or along an earthquake fault. When asked if they will try to get the holdings of NTIS, they said some of the collection is not in scope but some of it is and that they'd take the NTIS collection if NTIS was unable to keep it. The ILS may show holdings in depositories but this would mean we'd have to let GPO know if anything was weeded or lost. LC and GPO have reached an agreement on what their varied responsibilities are. LC does copyrighted material while GPO does government material. NARA will allow GPO to add things to the dark archive as needed. Continue reading
Boston Globe: “public loses information”
In war's name, public loses information By Charlie Savage, Boston Globe, April 24, 2005. (If that link doesn't work, Try this one sent in from an anonymous commenter. Thanks Anonymous commenter!)
This is an excellent update on the how public information is being increasingly concealed from the public. The article makes clear the difference between the system for classifying information as "Confidential," "Secret," or "Top Secret," and the "50 to 60 loosely defined security designations that can be imposed by officials as low-ranking as government clerks."
The article lists many examples of loss of access to public information including:
- topographic chart
- phone book
- environmental information
- statistical report
- planning document Continue reading