April 1999
Spring Depository Library Council/Federal Depository Conference
Federal Agency Update Session
Department of Energy
"DOE Information Bridge: One Year Later"
Don Altom, Project Manager, DOE Information Bridge
Kathy Chambers, Product Manager, DOE Information Bridge
Background
•GPO/DOE relationship to provide public access to DOE report literature - microfiche
•GPO/DOE Interagency Agreement in December 1997 to provide Web access to full text DOE report literature from January 1996
–Leverage existing DOE system
–Access through GPO Access System
•Incorporated GPO requirements
–Eliminate passwords
–Provide PDF full text for download to user desktop
•"Roll out" in April 1998 with Web access to 23,422 bibliographic and full text DOE reports
Growth/Utilization
•Increased full text information collection by 50%; 35,006 bibliographic and full text records available on 12 April 1999
•Utilization
–Document downloads - performance measure
–55,942 downloads through 10 April 1999 by all user communities: depository libraries, US and international publics, DOE, other government agencies, etc.
Recent Enhancements
•Customer driven
•Option to download full text in native formats
–PDF, Word, WordPerfect, SGML, HTML, XML, Postscript, TIFFG4
•Links to full text posted at remote sites scattered throughout the DOE Complex
–ASCII-based formats
Future Directions
•Customer driven
•Convert to Oracle/UNIX environment
•New functionality
–Date range searching
–Search downloaded PDF documents
•Legacy data
–Assessment pending; determine interest in Web access to full text prior to January 1996
–Encourage participation
Honors/Awards
•DOE Information Management Quality Award for Technical Excellence in October 1998
•Hammer Award presented by National Partnership for Reinventing Government in February 1999
GPO/DOE partnership continuing success story
Questions/Answers