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Report from the Meeting of Experts on Digital PreservationREVISED: Report from the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation: Digital Preservation Masters. June 18, 2004 (PDF 91 KB) GPO is working with the library 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. GPO is holding a series of meetings to develop specifications for the digitization project. The first meeting of experts on digitization and digital preservation was held at the GPO in Washington, DC in March 2004. The meeting brought together practicing experts in the field of digital format conversion and digital project development to discuss the current standards and specifications for the creation of digital objects for preservation and to put forward a proposed set of minimum requirements for digitizing documents for this project. The draft report on the first meeting was posted in April 2004 and the public was encouraged to review the report and provide comments on the proposed specifications for digital preservation masters. Very few changes were made to the initial document, as it is a record of a meeting that occurred in the past. The revised report does include some minor corrections in the charts summarizing projects of the participating institutions and clarification of the wording associated with the OCR process. A second meeting of experts focusing on descriptive and preservation metadata was held at GPO June 2004. As a result of that meeting, GPO is reviewing the necessary processes to establish a basic meta package for each item (artifact) in the digital collection, as well as the mandatory metadata to be submitted to GPO by digitization partners. GPO will make this meeting report available for public comment in the near future. Original DocumentBelow, you will find a link to the original version of the document made available during the comment period. Report from the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation: Digital Preservation Masters. Original Report, March 12, 2004 (PDF 111 KB)
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