The white paper reports on the specific context of the results of the pilot, including a summary of analysis done on the work performed, an assessment of lessons learned, and planned future direction and next steps for further development of the harvesting function to be implemented during Release 2 of GPO's Future Digital System (FDsys), currently scheduled for mid-2008.
As a first step in learning about automated Web publication discovery and harvesting technologies and methodologies, GPO contracted with two private companies on this pilot. We collaborated to develop rules and instructions that would determine whether EPA content discovered was in scope for GPO's dissemination programs. Three separate crawls were conducted on the sites over a six-month period, and harvester rules and instructions were refined and revised between crawls.
Automated publication harvesting will be a topic of discussion at the spring 2007 Depository Library Council Meeting. This discussion will include plans to assess, catalog, and provide access to in scope content acquired during the pilot.
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