DIGITAL CURATION AT THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Digital Curation is an emerging practice in library and information science. It incorporates practices from libraries, archives, and the information management practices of organizations. The U.S. Geological Survey is exploring digital curation and how its implementation could support research in the geosciences both within the Survey and world-wide. The presentation will provide an overview of the components of digital curation and specific details about the USGS collections that could be come available in new ways in the future.

The USGS Library is one of the world's largest libraries in the earth and natural sciences and has been operating continuously since 1882. Many of their collections are in the public domain and are available for digitization and availability through new digital library services. The U.S. Geological Survey is exploring a variety of models to improve access to the geoscience literature and will explore some of the components of these models in their presentation.