GPO Hunts Fugitives

(Via Federal Computer Week) As more federal agencies publish government information on Web sites without notifying the Government Printing Office, important documents that should be indexed, catalogued and preserved for public access in the Federal Depository Library Program have instead become "fugitive". The GPO's answer to the problem is to use Web crawler and data-mining technologies to find them. GPO officials request that companies with those technologies submit proposals by June 2 for services they describe as "Web harvesting" in a recent solicitation for bids.

Posted by Tom on May 26, 2004