PEGI PROJECT Raising awareness for the preservation of electronic government information International Digital Preservation Day 2017 November 30, 2017
Defining electronic government information What do you think of when you think about electronic government information?
Permanent no-fee public access "One of the core missions of the Government Printing Office (GPO) is to provide, in partnership with Federal depository libraries, for nationwide community facilities for the perpetual, free and ready access to print and electronic publications of the Federal government." -- SOD-PPS-2016-1 "Through preservation activities GPO will provide free permanent public access to Government publications and information dissemination products that are within the scope of the Federal Depository Library Program and the Cataloging & Indexing Program for future generations." -- SOD-PPS-2016-4
The FDLP & tangible government information Since 1813, the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) has preserved the public record of the U.S. government by means of ensuring distributed access to official U.S. publications. Under the authority of Title 44 of the U.S. Code, the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) distributes publications to participating libraries (FDLs), and the libraries agree to make them available to the public at no charge. Today over 1100 FDLs also assist people in their communities in identifying, locating, accessing, and understanding government information.
Gov Info Lifecycle Congress, Federal Agencies, etc Public
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Preserving electronic government information Focus on digital information with longterm cultural and historical value Current efforts underway GPO FDSys LOCKSS USDocs FIPNet End of Term Web Archive DataRefuge
Preserving electronic government information Determining long-term cultural and historical value Depends on user community
What is PEGI?
Partner Institutions University of North Texas University of North Carolina at Greensboro University of California, Santa Barbara University of Missouri Stanford University Yale University Center for Research Libraries Educopia Year two (2018) is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services grant #LG-88-17-0129-17.
Mission Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) is a two-year initiative to address national concerns regarding the preservation of electronic government information by cultural memory organizations for long term use by the citizens of the United States. The focus is at-risk government digital information of long term historical significance which is not being adequately harvested from the Web or by other automated means.
Project Planning Year 1 (2017) Gathering data & preparing for outreach activities: UNT Open Access Symposium (May): Steering committee meeting & panel presentation American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference (June): Steering committee meeting Depository Library Council Meeting & Federal Depository Library Conference (FDLC) (October): Steering committee meeting & exploratory mini-forum Outreach presentations: DLF Forum, North Carolina Library Association, Gov Info Day Canada preconference
Project Planning Year 2 (2018) IMLS National Leadership Grant Analyzing & documenting project findings; conducting educational awareness & advocacy outreach activities: American Historical Association (AHA) (January): Mini-forum ALA Midwinter Meeting (February): Steering committee meeting American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (February): Mini-forum ALA Annual Conference (June): Steering committee meeting & mini-forum Society of American Archivists (SAA) (August): Mini-forum
Project Planning Year 2 (2018) IMLS National Leadership Grant Analyzing & documenting project findings; conducting educational awareness & advocacy outreach activities: International Conference on Digital Preservation (ipres) (September): Miniforum International Data Week* (October): Mini-forum The PEGI National Forum will be held in October 2018 in Washington, DC. *Co-organized by the ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), the ICSU World Data System (WDS) and the Research Data Alliance (RDA)
Outcomes & Products 1 Conduct a multimodal scan of atrisk federal digital content. 3 Conduct an educational awareness and advocacy outreach program. 2 Produce guidance for agencies and other government information producers, taking the form of recommendations for best practices that can improve the preservability and accessibility of electronic information. 4 Develop recommendations for a collaborative agenda for future work to continue improving preservation of electronic government information.
Thank you. Questions? Contact us: www.pegiproject.org info@pegiproject.org @PEGIProject