[edit] U.S. Government Documents Private LOCKSS Network
The "USDocs" private LOCKSS network 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.
The participating libraries and the Stanford LOCKSS team are currently working to preserve content published via: 1. Carl Malamud’s public.resource.org site, http://bulk.resource.org/. 2. The U.S. Government Printing Office's (GPO) Federal Digital System, www.fdsys.gov
USDocs PLN Participating Institutions:
- Alaska State Library
- Amherst College
- California State University, Fresno
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Library of Congress
- Michigan State University
- North Carolina State University
- Northeastern University
- Rice University
- Stanford University
- University of Alabama [FDLP regional library]
- University of Alberta
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Illinois/Chicago
- University of Kentucky [FDLP regional library]
- University of North Carolina [FDLP regional library]
- University of Virginia [FDLP regional library]
- University of Wisconsin-Madison [FDLP regional library]
- Vanderbilt
- Virginia Tech
We welcome additional participants. For more information, please contact James Jacobs at jrjacobs (at) stanford (at) edu.
To bring a USDOCS LOCKSS box online, please follow these instructions, USDOCS_PLN_Configuration
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.
