World Digital Preservation Day
Happy World Digital Preservation Day (#WDPD2023)!
GPO is celebrating digital preservation on November 2, 2023, by spreading the message that GPO is eager to collaborate with your library or institution’s collections to increase access to digital publications through our digital repository, GovInfo. GovInfo is the only ISO 16363:2012 Trustworthy Digital Repository-certified repository in the world, ensuring long-term, reliable access to more than 3 million publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. In addition to our commitment to ISO 16363:2012 certification, in FY23 GPO also announced our goal of becoming certified under CoreTrustSeal, joining 90 other institutions worldwide that are committed to digital preservation standards and best practices. More can be found about this endeavor through GPO’s public presentations at the Coalition for Networked Information 2023 Membership Meeting (Lightning Talks) and the proceedings of the 2022 iPRES Conference hosted in Glasgow, Scotland.
GPO endeavors to fulfill our repository’s collection through the priorities within our Collection Development Plan. Your library could help us in our mission by becoming a Digital Content Contributor and contributing digitally imaged publications to GovInfo. Digital Content Contributors provide digitally imaged Federal Government publications that meet GPO specifications for ingest into GovInfo. The Contributors share a copy ofcontent that they have digitally imaged from their library’s or agency’s own collection for ingest into the repository as a contribution to the National Collection of U.S. Government Public Information on GovInfo. GPO provides ongoing access and preservation of the digital content. GPO works alongside partners to provide guidance and assistance at every step of the way from digital imaging, to file organization, to metadata creation, and easy file transfer. Guidance documents from GPO are available below for more information.
If you have questions or comments about these guidance documents, or if you are planning a digital imaging project and would like assistance with planning the project or working with a commercial vendor, please contact GPO’s preservation program at [email protected]. If you would like to contribute content to GovInfo that is already digitally imaged, please contact the Partnership Team via askGPO. Please select the GPO customer type, Federal Depository Library, and the category, Partnerships (including digitization initiatives).