-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Contribute to the Registry of U.S. Government
Publication Digitization Projects
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:18:35 -0400
From: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
And now there are three was my first thought? And which one do I seek
out before I duplicate something? The GPO site seems to be obviously
restricting itself to U.S. Government publications - which are certainly
numerous enough in themselves - while both WAML and MAGERT would accept
materials produced by the Dutch, an individual, and/or the U.S.
government. I agree with Paige and Phil that consolidation is something
that we should work towards as such projects are growing geometrically
it seems.
David Cobb
Angie Cope, AGSL wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Contribute to the Registry of U.S. Government
> Publication Digitization Projects
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 20:01:43 GMT
> From: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Consolidation is a very good idea.
>
> Another restriction on the GPO site is:
>
> "[Contributions] are from libraries, government agencies, or other
> non-profit institutions."
>
> This would exclude the David Rumsey Collection, even though we have
> scanned hundreds of items published by the federal government.
>
>
> Philip Hoehn, Map Librarian
> San Francisco -- [log in to unmask]
> -----------------------------------
> Contractor for David Rumsey Collection:
> http://www.davidrumsey.com
>
> -- "Angie Cope, AGSL" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Contribute to the Registry of U.S. Government
> Publication Digitization Projects
> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:25:12 -0400
> From: Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks go to Kathy for providing this important information about a GPO
> digital project repository. Which brings up a thought/question: I am
> aware of at least two other similar projects in the U.S., one sponsored
> by WAML and one by MAGERT, and I think there is something similar going
> on amongst the California universities too. Then there is one for the
> United Kingdom that I remember seeing a notice on here awhile ago. So,
> at least considering the United States offerings -- is it time to
> consider merging these efforts into one big digital cartography projects
> repository? This is an idea that was considered at last year's
> CUAC-sponsored national meeting in Washington, D.C., and I know WAML
> acted on it very quickly to everyone's benefit. I certainly am not
> implying that anyone should let excellent work and effort go by the
> boards here, only that if there is a national government agency willing
> to host such an important "creature" that it appears to me an
> opportunity has arisen.
>
> At the same time the one "restriction" I see with this notification is
> that GPO is accepting projects for their list that contain U.S.
> government-based data, and maybe that is enough of a restriction to
> maintain more than one such registry?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Paige
>
> At 10:46 AM 8/2/2006, you wrote:
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Contribute to the Registry of U.S. Government
>> Publication
>> Digitization Projects
>> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:29:07 -0400
>> From: Kathy Brazee <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>
>> The U.S. Government Printing Office encourages you to contribute
>> information
>> about your institution's digitization projects containing U.S.
>> Government
>> cartographic publications to the Registry of U.S. Government Publication
>> Digitization Projects at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/legacy/registry/.
>>
>> The Registry's goal is to provide comprehensive coverage of all
>> appropriate
>> digitization projects that include U.S. Government publications. The
>> Registry is designed to:
>>
>> Serve as a locator tool for publicly accessible collections of digitized
>> U.S. Government publications;
>> Increase awareness of U.S. Government publication digitization
>> projects that
>> are planned, in progress, or completed;
>> Foster collaboration for digitization projects; and
>> Provide models for future digitization projects.
>>
>> Projects represented in the Registry must be freely accessible and
>> entirely
>> composed of digitized U.S. Government publications or include a
>> substantial
>> number of them. You may update information about projects as they
>> progress.
>>
>> If you have questions or comments, please use the GPO online help
>> service
>> at: http://gpo.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/gpo.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php. To
> ensure
>> that your question is routed to the correct area, please choose the
>> category
>> "Federal Depository Libraries" and new sub-category "Digitization".
>>
>> You may also contact the GPO Customer Contact Center at 866-512-1800
>> (Toll-free) or at 202-512-1800 (DC Metropolitan Area), Monday through
>> Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m., EST.
>>
>> GPO Customer Contact Center
>
--
David A. Cobb
Harvard Map Collection
Harvard College Library
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel. 617.495.2417
FAX 617.496.0440
Email: [log in to unmask]
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