Government Printing Office
Future Digital System (FDsys)
B A C K G R O U N D & B U S I N E S S P R O B L E M
PTFS is a perfect partner
for this project considering
their library science,
content management, and
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been tasked to build an easily manageable
digitization expertise. repository for over 60 million digitized government publications, terabytes of born-digital
documents as well as data associated with GPO’s federal printing requirements. Not only
does GPO need a way to store every published federal document that dates back to the late
1700’s Federalist Papers but it also needs to make the documents available to the public
through a Web portal. GPO has a vision of a digital content system that would allow federal
content creators to easily create and submit content that can be digitally preserved.
Eventually, the public will to be able to search, view, download and print authenticated
documents through a Web portal. The types of content that would be available include text,
graphics, video, audio and other forms as they emerge. Content will be available for Web
searching and Internet viewing, downloading and printing, and as document masters for
conventional and on-demand printing, or other dissemination methods. This project
required vendor capabilities in specific library technologies as well as content management
expertise.
S O L U T I O N
GPO chose to partner with PTFS and Harris Corp. because of their library science, content
management, and digitization experience. PTFS has full text search and content management
technology called ArchivalWare. PTFS holds a current library contract with GPO to work
on their integrated library system (ILS) and has information system integration experience
building large document repositories. All these unique capabilities come together to provide
GPO a solid partner to work with in making this project, FDsys, a success.
B E N E F I T S
PTFS staff consists of government document experts to include librarians as well as
information and digitization technology professionals and subject matter experts.
PTFS has provided document solutions to many federal agencies for the past eleven
years.
PTFS offers proprietary digital archiving software, ArchivalWare, with powerful full-
text-search capability supporting native indexing of over 200 different file formats.
PTFS, Inc. Founded in 1995 as Progressive Technology Federal Systems, PTFS now provides solutions that include digital archiving systems,
6400 Goldsboro Road | Suite 200 digitization and content conversion services, library systems integration and staffing services as well as integration with business
Bethesda, Maryland 20817 process systems. PTFS has provided tailored solutions for more than 250 government, commercial, academic, union, association
and not-for-profit clients.
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