a collaborative effort by federal agencies formed as a group in 2007 to define common guidelines, methods, and practices to digitize historical content in a sustainable manner.
TRAIL is a Greater Western Library Alliance initiative lead by the University of Arizona in collaboration with the Center for Research Libraries and other interested supporting agencies to identify, digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.
The Digital Registry is a directory listing of U.S. Government publication digitization efforts. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive listing of all these digitization efforts. Included in the listings are: An overview of the project. The institution(s) and partners involved in the digitization. The scope of the digitization project (e.g., by volume, year, Congress, administration, geographic region). The status of the project (planning phase, in-progress, completed). Technical specifications of the digitization output (e.g., file format, metadata schema). Whether a digitization project is seeking collaborative assistance. A link to the publicly-accessible digitized content.