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Title: Government information locator service: GILS Archive.

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README.TXT for Archived Government Information Locator Service (GILS) database, December 7, 1994 through September 2, 2008

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Created: 2010/12/14

Last Updated: 2010/12/14

From the U.S. Government Printing Office, Federal Depository Library

Program (fdlp.gov).

Table of Contents

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* Overview

* History of GILS

* Types of GILS Records

* Organization of GILS Records

* File Formats

* File Naming Conventions

* Additional Information

Overview

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This compressed file contains files from the Government Information Locator Service (GILS) database, December 7, 1994 through September 2, 2008.

History of GILS

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The Government Information Locator Service (GILS) was created in 1994 to provide a mechanism for users to identify, locate, and describe publicly available Federal information resources, including electronic information resources. GILS records identify public information resources within the Federal Government, describe the information available in these resources, and assist in obtaining the information.

In the years since GILS was issued, however, advances in technology have made the standard obsolete that enable agencies to avoid the ongoing, resource intensive cataloging efforts mandated by the GILS. As a result of fr02se08N <

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2008-09-02/pdf/E8-20138.pdf> (also contained within this compressed file as E8-20138.pdf), the GILS application previously on GPO Access is no longer being updated and an archive is available. The archive database encompasses GILS records from December 7, 1994 through September 2, 2008.

Types of GILS Records

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Because this collection was decentralized, the GPO Access GILS site was only one of several U.S. Federal GILS sites. Thirty-two agencies mounted their GILS records on GPO Access. The GILS records of the other departments and agencies are spread across many sites. For basic information about GILS, visit <http://www.gils.net>.For agencies that mounted their GILS records on a server other than GPO Access, GPO wrote GILS pointer records, which describe their GILS holdings and link to those holdings. GPO sent those pointer records to each agency and invited each to edit its own records as appropriate.

GPO also created a series of GILS records describing the information of Cabinet-level and major independent Federal agencies, called Pathway Records.

Organization of GILS Records

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The archive GILS records have been organized into several folders (one for each record type or agency abbreviation), using the naming convention within the parenthesis, (i.e. (fema)) as stated below:

All Records on GPO Access GILS Site (gils)

Pointer Records to other GILS sites (pointers)

Pathway Records Created by GPO (pathway)

Individual Agency GILS databases:

* Central Intelligence Agency (cia)

* Consumer Product Safety Commission (cpsc)

* Department of Commerce (commerce)

* Department of State (state)

* Department of Treasury (treas)

* Environmental Protection Agency (epa)

* Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (eeoc)

* Farm Credit Administration (fca)

* Federal Communication Commission (fcc)

* Federal Emergency Management Agency (fema)

* Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (ferc)

* Federal Labor Relations Authority (flra)

* Federal Maritime Commission (fmc)

* Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (fmshrc)

* Federal Reserve Board (frb)

* Federal Trade Commission (ftc)

* General Services Administration (gsa)

* Government Printing Office (gpo, records)

* International Trade Commission (itc)

* Merit Systems Protection Board (mspb)

* National Archives and Records Administration (nara)

* National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (nclis)

* Office of Administration, EOP (eop)

* Office of Government Ethics (oge)

* Office of Management and Budget (omb)

* Office of Personnel Management (opm)

* Overseas Private Investment Corporation (opic)

* Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (pbgc)

* Railroad Retirement Board (rrb)

* Securities and Exchange Commission (sec)

* Selective Service System (sss)

* Social Security Administration (ssa)

* U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (usccr)

* U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (nwtrb)

* U.S. Trade Representative (ustr)

* Miscelleanous Agencies (docs, records)

File Formats

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Files are available primarily as .txt (ASCII text). There are also sporadic .html files.

File Naming Conventions

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Files are named based on record type or agency abbreviations often followed by a numerical sequence.

Additional Information

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The Government Printing Office partially funded a study entitled, "An Evaluation of the Federal Government's Implementation of the Government Information Locator Service: The Final Report". This study was completed on June 30, 1997 and is included in this compressed file as gils-eval.pdf.

Permanent Public Access

Title 44 of the United States Code (44 U.S.C. Section 1911) stipulates that public access to official Government information products disseminated through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) must be maintained permanently in regional depository libraries and by depository libraries not served by a regional library. Since online products are not physically distributed to depository libraries for retention, GPO has assumed responsibility for the provision of permanent access to Government information products residing on FDsys servers.

GPO's permanent public access commitment is also met by bringing agency-disseminated Internet resources under the purview of GPO and incorporating them into a digital archive. GPO captures copies of agency electronic information products, and creates PURLs so that users will be automatically redirected to the archived products if the information is no longer accessible on the agency Web site. Please refer to the report Managing the FDLP Electronic Collection: A Policy and Planning Document for more information.

July 12, 2017