World Digital Preservation Day 2024
Published: November 7, 2024
This year's theme is "Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities"
Happy World Digital Preservation Day (#WDPD2024)!
GPO is celebrating digital preservation on November 7, 2024 by spreading the message that we are eager to collaborate with your library or institution’s collections to increase access to digital publications through our digital repository, GovInfo. GovInfo is a certified ISO 16363:2012 Trustworthy Digital Repository , one of the only such repositories with this distinction in the world, and ensures long-term, reliable access to millions of publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. In addition to our commitment to ISO 16363:2012 certification, in FY24, GPO also became certified under CoreTrustSeal, joining 90 other institutions worldwide who are committed to digital preservation standards and best practices. More can be found about this achievement through GPO’s public presentations at the Coalition for Networked Information 2023 Membership Meeting (Lightning Talks) and the proceedings of the 2022 iPRES Conference hosted in Glasgow, Scotland.
GPO celebrated several milestones in the last year, including:
- Providing access to digitized U.S. Statutes at Large volumes from 1789-1950,
- Facilitating the digital submission to GPO by Federal agencies of Congressionally Mandated Reports and making the reports available as a collection in GovInfo,
- Continuing the effort to digitize the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in collaboration with the Library of Congress and making the documents available in GovInfo,
- Reaching 12 million PDF files and 30 million image files in the Preservation Repository,
- Submitting 260 thousand content packages to GovInfo in FY24,
- Reaching 1.7 billion public file retrievals in FY24, and
- Averaging 141 million monthly public retrievals of documents from GovInfo in FY24.
GPO endeavors to fulfill repository collection goals through priorities within the Collection Development Plan. Your library could help in this mission by becoming a Digital Content Contributor and contributing digitally imaged publications to GovInfo. Digital Content Contributors provide digitally imaged Federal Government publications that meet GPO specifications for ingest into GovInfo. The Contributors share a copy of the content they have digitally imaged from their library or agency's collection for ingest into the repository as a contribution to the National Collection of U.S. Government Public Information on GovInfo. GPO then provides ongoing access and preservation of the digital content. GPO works alongside partners to provide guidance and assistance at every step, from digital imaging, file organization, metadata creation, easy file transfer, and more. Guidance documents from GPO are available below for further information.
If you have questions or comments about these guidance documents, are interested in contributing content to GovInfo, or are looking for assistance with planning a digital imaging project, please contact the partnership team at preservefedinfo@gpo.gov.