[PADG:388] The Report on the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation: Metadata Specifications now available on GPO Access

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U.S. Government Printing Office

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The Report on the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation: Metadata
Specifications is now available on GPO Access at
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/about/reports/metadata.html. 

Background:

GPO is working with the library community and others in the information
community on a national digitization plan, with the goal of digitizing a
complete legacy collection of tangible U.S. Government publications. The
objective is to ensure that the digital collection is available, in the
public domain, for no-fee permanent public access through the FDLP.
 
The project will ensure that the collection is digitally reformatted for
preservation purposes. The digital preservation masters and the associated
metadata will be preserved in the GPO electronic archive (in addition to any
other places that the materials might be held), and there will be no-fee
public access to the content through derivative files on GPO Access.

The Report on the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation: Metadata
Specifications, which is located at,
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/about/reports/metadata.html, is a summary of the
second of two meetings held to assist GPO in developing specifications for
the digitization project. This meeting, focusing on descriptive and
preservation metadata, was held at GPO on June 14, 2004. A summary of the
overall discussion of the experts and the necessary resources for the
metadata package submission are included in the report. Also included is a
listing of metadata elements that is not meant to be viewed as a final list
of required metadata elements, but a list of metadata elements, based on
this discussion and the recommended readings as put forth in the meeting. It
provides a common set of elements from which to build for digitization
project. GPO encourages all to review the report and provide comments to
Judith C.
Russell (jrussell@xxxxxxx) by Monday, March 28, 2005.

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at:
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Depository Libraries" and the appropriate subcategory under Additional
Information.

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