Government Information Clearinghouse
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On this Page:

• Documents
• Notes of Meetings
• Example component demonstrations
• Example References

Other Pages:

• Discussion List
• Next Meeting (to be scheduled)
• Recap of Meetings
• Organizations involved in design of Clearinghouse and the Partnership Agreement

Documents

• Letter in response to RFI on "Spatially Enabling Electronic Government"
• Geospatial Information Discovery and the FirstGov Portal (presentation)
• Testimony in U.S. Congress (Oct 2, 2000) regarding the FirstGov Portal
• Presidential Directive on Electronic Government (December 17, 1999)
• Clearinghouse Partnership Agreement (April 10, 2000)
• White Paper
• Brouchure about GILS
• Partner's Guide to Clearinghouse (Draft)
• Interface Guide to Clearinghouse (Draft)

Notes

• Notes from August 24, 2001 Meeting at the Department of Labor
• Notes from February 16, 2001 Meeting at the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
• Notes from November 21, 2000 Meeting at the General Services Administration
• Notes from July 21, 2000 Meeting at the Council for Excellence in Government
• Notes from May 19, 2000 Meeting at the Bauman Foundation
• Notes from April 10, 2000 Meeting at Center for Democracy and Technology
• Notes from March 17, 2000 Meeting at White House Conference Center
• Notes of support from prospective partners
• Presentation at White House Meeting on Feb. 24, 2000

Example component demonstrations

• Before Clearinghouse - Agency search pages with separate hyperlinks
• After Clearinghouse - Coherent search across 35 agency databases
• Sample Locator Records for Agency Web Sites
• Sample Locator Records for Searchable Resources

Example References

• Government Printing Office, Memorandum of Understanding
• NetFirst Collection Development Policy
• Department of Defense Web Site Policy