The goal of Web publication harvesting is to discover and capture newly identified online publications that are within scope of GPO's information dissemination programs. GPO's publication harvesting activities include planning for and discovering, making scope determination assessment, capturing, and archiving online U.S. Government publications determined to be within scope of GPO's information dissemination programs. GPO is working to accomplish these tasks while using increasingly automated technologies are being developed in conjunction with the Federal Digital System.
The following is a list of harvesting pilots that have been undertaken by GPO: