In the analog world the preservation of government information
has a clear flow. Content is created by a federal agency. When the need arises
for distribution, it is sent to GPO (Government Publishing Office) and when the
time comes to archive materials for the permanent record, they go to NARA
(National Archives and Records Administration). Today this workflow is still effective
for print materials, however much of the content produced by government
agencies is no longer produced in an analog form, which means that the flow of
content through GPO and NARA doesn’t happen in the same way, and potentially
not at all.
To address these concerns, the Digital Preservation of
Federal Information Summit was held in San Antonio in early April. This meeting
looked at the need for cross-sector collaboration to preserve and provide
access to digital government information that may be falling through the cracks
without an updated workflow to address the temporariness of web-based content. The
end result was a report
that outlines the events’ sessions and outcomes including discussions about
the need for an environmental scan, development for a coalition of interested
institutions representing the public and private sectors, and the need for a
common vocabulary.
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