November 14, 2019

This report provides a summary of work completed by the Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) project from 2017 to 2019. The PEGI Project seeks to address national concerns regarding the preservation of electronic government information by cultural memory organizations for long term use by the public.

A significant part of our efforts in 2018 focused on analyzing the possibility of using the Collective Impact model to organize collaborative preservation work. This report shares an overview of project activities and conversations, analysis of the findings, and presents next steps for project activities.

Authored by Dr. Martin Halbert, Roberta Sittel, Dr. Katherine Skinner, Deborah Caldwell, Marie Concannon, James R. Jacobs, Shari Laster, and Scott Matheson.

You can download the report from Educopia here. It is archived at perma.cc and on the Internet Archive.

May 3, 2019

This report provides a synopsis of the Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) National Forum, hosted in December 2018, in Washington, D.C. with generous funding by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This facilitated meeting was designed to enable librarians, archivists, and researchers to explore and address targeted concerns regarding long-term access to historically significant born-digital government information in the U.S. The National Forum helped to build consensus among collaborators about their shared priorities, such as goals for collective action, and shared challenges, such as vocabulary and metrics. This report shares the methodology used to create the forum, a recap of the activities and conversations it generated, and a brief set of recommendations for next steps.

Authored by Dr. Martin Halbert, Dr. Katherine Skinner, Roberta Sittel, Deborah Caldwell, Marie Concannon, James R. Jacobs, Shari Laster, and Scott Matheson.

Special thanks to the Coalition for Networked Information for providing meeting support.

You can download the report from Educopia here. It is archived at perma.cc and on the Internet Archive.