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This story is from the category Computing Power
Date posted: 20/06/2010 Each year, the U.S. Government Printing Office publishes mountains of paper documents, everything from the Congressional Record to Government Accountability Office reports. But that's only a fraction of its output nowadays. More and more of its content is online-only, and that's a problem. Cyberspace records are vulnerable to computer crashes; they're also vulnerable to tampering. This week Stanford has joined the effort to protect government documents electronically through LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a Stanford-based international consortium of more than 200 university and college libraries that collects and preserves electronic content. In the latest development, on Monday, June 14, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) announced that it has entered the LOCKSS alliance. The GPO is the federal government's resource for gathering, cataloging, producing, providing, authenticating and preserving published U.S government information. See the full Story via external site: www.physorg.com Most recent stories in this category (Computing Power): 19/02/2017: Printable solar cells just got a little closer |
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