State Digital Initiatives

Best Practices Exchange -- dedicated to managing digital information in state government.
ECHO DEPository Project: digital preservation R&D project at the U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with OCLC and funded by NDIIPP. Other project partners include NCSA, WILL TV and Radio, Tufts U., Michigan State U., and state libraries from Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, North Carolina and Wisconsin.
Historic State Codes Preservation Project - Georgetown Law Library had reprinted the historic state codes in its collection that were printed between 1840 and 1930, for all fifty states and the District of Columbia.
PeDALS - The Persistent Digital Archives and Library System is a research project with two technical goals: first, to develop a curatorial rationale to support an automated, integrated workflow to process collections of digital publications and records; and second, to implement "digital stacks" using an inexpensive, storage network that can preserve the authenticity and integrity of the collections.
Preserving State Government Digital Information: A Baseline Report (SUNY-Albany, 2006)
State Government Digital Preservation Profiles (SUNY-Albany, 2006)
State-by-State Report on Permanent Public Access to Electronic Government Information (AALL, 2003)
State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources (AALL, 2007)
State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources, 2009-2010 update; Executive Summary (AALL, 2010)
Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act -- approved on July 12, 2011, by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) at its Annual Meeting. The Act requires that official electronic legal material be authenticated, preserved, and accessible.

Alabama: The Alabama Digital Preservation Network (ADPNet)
Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records: Digital Government Information Initiatives
California State Library: Ensuring Access to California Digital Government Documents
Connecticut State Library: Connecticut Digital Archive
District of Columbia / Maryland / Virginia: Legal Information Archive: Chesapeake Project, and Decisions of the Mayor's Agent for Historic Preservation in Washington, DC
Georgia Government Publications, 1994-Present
Idaho Commission for Libraries: Idaho Digital Publications
Illinois: Capturing E-Publications of Public Documents and Preserving Electronic Publications
Kansas Electronic Recordkeeping Strategy: a White Paper
Kentucky Electronic Records Archives
Maryland: Archives of Maryland Online and the Virginia State Law Library's archived material in the collections of The Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group
Massachusetts: State Documents Online and State Library of Massachusetts Electronic Repository
Minnesota State Archives: Preserving State Government Digital Information Other participating states include Illinois, Kansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Vermont.
Missouri: The State Publications Access Program and its database, Missouri State Publications (CONTENTdm web site).
Montana: State Library Digital Library Initiative, and the Montana State Law Library's Montana Indian Law collection, which uses CONTENTdm.
Nebraska: State Government Publications Online
New Mexico State Library: Digital Archive
North Carolina Access to State Government Information Initiative
Oklahoma Crossroads: Oklahoma State Government Publications
Texas: TRAIL: Texas Records and Information Locator
Utah Government Publications Online
Virginia: The Virginia State Law Library's archived material in the collections of The Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group
Washington State Digital Archives
Wisconsin Digital Archives