Presentations from University of Ottawa Government Information Day Available Online

The University of Ottawa Library, with sponsorship from the Carleton University Library, organized a Government Information Day on October 16th, 2014 at the University of Ottawa's downtown campus.

The presentations from the sessions are now available online.

Among the topics covered:

• Digitizing Ontario government documents: The story so far
• Who's digitizing what?
• Planning for a registry of digitized Canadian government documents
• Cuttings or compost? Working with the weeding outfall of LAC and GoC
• Digitization of the Statistics Canada Library's Historical Collection
• Historical Debates of the Parliament of Canada Portal: Increasing access to Parliament's documentary history and heritage
• Digitization, preservation, access: Canadiana.org and trustworthy digital repository (TDR) services
• Web archiving: Getting started with Internet Archive's Archive-IT service
• Cultivating community engagement through web archiving
• On the hunt for fugitive government information
• Keeping current, staying relevant
• E-informing the public: Information access and e-government
• Open government 2.0: Learning from the past and moving forward
• The conditions and challenges for sustainable open data ecosystems