World Digital Preservation Day
Published: November 2, 2022
Happy World Preservation Day (#WDPD2022)!
This year GPO wishes to share the celebration of digital preservation on November 3rd by spreading the message that we are eager to collaborate with Federal Depository Libraries to increase access to digital publications through GovInfo. GovInfo is the only ISO 16363:2012 Trustworthy Digital Repository-certified repository in the world, ensuring long-term, reliable access to more than 3 million publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
GPO endeavors to fulfill our repository’s collection through the priorities within our Collection Development Plan. Your Federal Depository Library could help us in our mission by contributing digitally imaged publications by becoming a Digital Content Contributor.
Digital Content Contributors provide digitally imaged Federal Government Publications that meet GPO specifications for ingest into GovInfo. The Contributors share a copy of content that they have digitally imaged from their library’s own collection for ingest into the repository as a contribution to the National Collection of U.S. Government Public Information on GovInfo. GPO provides ongoing access and preservation of the digital content. GPO works alongside partners to provide guidance and assistance at every step of the way from digital imaging, to file organization, to metadata creation, and easy file transfer. Guidance documents from GPO are available below for more information.
If you have questions or comments about these guidance documents or if you are planning a digital imaging project and would like assistance with planning the project or working with a commercial vendor, please contact GPO’s preservation program at [email protected]. If you would like to contribute content that is already digitally imaged to GovInfo, please contact the Partnership Team via AskGPO.
Digital Content Contributor MOA template
Guidance for Packaging Digital Content for Submission to GovInfo
Guidance for Digitally Imaging Content for Submission to GovInfo