[edit] U.S. Government Documents Private LOCKSS Network
Fifteen libraries, working with Carl Malamud’s public.resource.org site, are harvesting and preserving this critical content in a distributed digital preservation system. First to be preserved are the GPO documents hosted at http://bulk.resource.org/ with other collections to follow.
The "USDocs" PLN replicates key aspects of the United States Federal Depository System. The content is held in geographically distributed sites and replicated many times. Citizens have oversight and responsibility for the long-term care and maintenance of the content. All these characteristics mean the content will be preserved so that any alteration of the content (either deliberate or accidental) will be detected and repaired. For all documents, preservation in a tamper-evident environment is important, but for government documents, this is essential.
USDocs PLN Participating Institutions:
- Alaska State Library
- Amherst College
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Library of Congress
- Michigan State University
- North Carolina State University
- Northeastern University
- Rice University
- Stanford University
- University of Alabama
- University of Illinois/Chicago
- University of Kentucky
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Vanderbilt
- Virginia Tech
We welcome additional participants. For more information, please contact James Jacobs at jrjacobs (at) stanford (at) edu.
For more on the US Government Documents PLN project, please click here to download "Distributed Globally, Collected Locally: LOCKSS for Digital Government Information, " Daniel Cornwall and James R. Jacobs. Against the Grain, 21(1) February, 2009. p.42-44.
