Government information in legacy formats: Scaling a pilot project to enable long-term access

D-Lib Magazine

Volumn 13, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages

  Gano, Gretchen ^a   Linden, Julie ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34548266639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10829873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1045/july2007-linden     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. John Hernandez and Tom Byrnes, "CD-ROM Analysis Project" (presentation at Spring 2004 Depository Library Council meeting, St. Louis, MO, April 21, 2004); unpublished PowerPoint available: 〈http://www. princeton.edu/%7Ejhernand/Depository_CD-ROM_Legacy.ppt〉.
2. In this article, "CD-ROM" is used as shorthand to refer to both CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs.
3. U.S. Government Printing Office, "Depository Library Public Service Guidelines For Government Information in Electronic Formats," 〈http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/mgt/pseguide.html〉.
4. "Legacy CD-ROMs and computers," posting to GOVDOC-L, December 1, 2006, 〈http://lists1.cac.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0612A&L=GOVDOC- L&P=R463&I=-3〉.
5. U.S. Government Printing Office, "Update for ALA, January 2006," 〈http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/events/ala_update06. pdf〉.
6. UCSD GPO Data Migration Project: 〈 http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/dmp/〉;
7. CIC Floppy Disk Project: 〈http://www.indiana.edu/~libgpd/mforms/ floppy/floppy.html〉.
8. For project reports and other materials, see 〈http://www.library. yale.edu/goydocs/cdmigration/〉.
9. Though a number of titles were available elsewhere online, the ability to locate the data and evaluate whether content matched that of the original CD-ROM was difficult due to lack of documentation, indexing, and standards to indicate data authenticity.
10. SETS, the Statistical Export and Tabulation System, is included on many National Center for Health Statistics CD-ROMs. See: 〈http://www.cdc.gov/ nchs/sets.htm〉.
11. Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, "Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)," January 2002, 〈http://www.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650×0b1.pdf〉.
12. 〈http://www.ddialliance.org/〉.
13. 〈http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php〉.
14. The stylesheet was created by Youn Noh, Yale's Digital Resources Catalog Librarian, and is available on the Yale Library CD-ROM migration project web site, see 〈http://www.library.yale.edu/govdocs/cdmigration〉.
15. 〈http://fedoraproject.org/〉.
16. Personal communication with Jim Jacobs, then data librarian at the University of California San Diego, June 29, 2006.
17. st Century," September 29, 2006, 〈http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/ fdlp/council/dlcvision092906.pdf〉.
18. Geoffrey Brown, "Ensuring Long-Term Access to Government Documents through Virtualization," presentation at IASSIST 2007, Montreal, May 17, 2007, 〈http://www.edrs.mcgill.ca/IASSIST2007/presentations/E1(1). pdf〉.
19. 〈http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~geobrown/svp/〉.
20. Harrison Dekker, "Virtual Machines in the Data Lab," presentation at IASSIST 2007, Montreal, May 17, 2007, 〈http://www.edrs. mcgill.ca/IASSIST2007/presentations/E1(3).pdf〉.