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Preserving government information : past, present, and future / by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs.
Van Pelt Library KF5752.5 .J33 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, James A. (James Asbury), 1950- Author.
- Jacobs, James R. (James Robertson), 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Government information--United States--Data processing.
- Government information.
- Government publications--Conservation and restoration--United States.
- Government publications.
- Government information--Conservation and restoration--United States.
- Electronic information resources--Conservation and restoration--United States.
- Electronic information resources.
- Electronic government information--Conservation and restoration--United States.
- Electronic government information.
- Digital preservation.
- Government publications--Conservation and restoration.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 441 pages illustrations 23 cm
- illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego ; San Francisco : FreeGovInfo Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "This textbook examines the preservation of government published information. It describes how paper-era policies affect digital preservation, it analyzes publishing and preservation data to characterize the current gaps in digital preservation, and it suggests the creation of a distributed digital preservation infrastructure for government information"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part one: Context Why preserve government information?
- What is information?
- What is government information?
- What is preservation? Part two: Where are we and how did we get here?
- The laws of preservation
- Federal government public information on the web
- GPO's govinfo
- Web harvesting
- GPO web harvesting
- NARA web harvesting
- LC web harvesting
- Comparing two harvests
- Gaps in preservation Part three: Preservation infrastructures
- Infrastructures
- OAIS
- Characteristics of digital information
- Assumptions Part four: A digital preservation infrastructure
- Barriers and opportunities
- Elements of an infrastructure
- An open framework for digital preservation
- A distributed OAIS
- Many roles
- Transition
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-439).
- ISBN:
- 9798218669317
- OCLC:
- 1520331480
- Publisher Number:
- 90104330459
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