SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- RFI-Request for Information-Normalization of Electronic Serial Content ONLY
- Notice Date
- 3/21/2012
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 519120
— Libraries and Archives
- Contracting Office
- Library of Congress, Contracts Services, Contracts Section, 101 Independence Ave SE, LA-325, Washington, District of Columbia, 20540-9411
- ZIP Code
- 20540-9411
- Solicitation Number
- LSM20120033
- Archive Date
- 4/17/2012
- Point of Contact
- Arneen Dozier, Phone: 202-707-0406
- E-Mail Address
-
adoz@loc.gov
(adoz@loc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Library of Congress REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) PURSUANT TO FAR 15.201(e) The Library of Congress and the National Library of Medicine seek to maximize their ability to ingest electronic serial content by limiting the variety of incoming content to a small number of widely-adopted digital formats. This will help to minimize customized processing on receipt, to facilitate digital preservation, and to enable efficient ingest into the libraries respective digital preservation, and researcher-access systems. To these ends, we are interested in gathering information from organizations that currently: receive electronic serial content from publishers or other sources; have established procedures for performing additional handling, editing, and verification functions; convert (normalize) that content into one or more standardized formats, preferably a structured XML container such as the Journal Archiving Tag Suite (JATS); and parse and/or extract any accompanying metadata. In addition, the national libraries are looking to streamline processing of incoming digital content for their collections, and are interested in gathering information from organizations that can: provide to the libraries the normalized content and metadata in industry-standard packaging structures; provide the content via secure transfer methods; and provide the content on a mutually-agreeable schedule. The libraries would be interested in significant, partial solutions as well. This announcement is a request for INFORMATION ONLY and does not obligate the Library of Congress or the National Library of Medicine in any way. This is not a request for proposal and the Library of Congress will not pay for any information submitted or for any expenses associated with providing information. Any information submitted by respondents to this RFI is strictly voluntary. Material submitted will be deemed proprietary to the extent permitted by applicable laws and regulations if so marked by the respondent Disclaimer This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not respondents to a contract solicitation and cannot be accepted by the government to form a binding contract. Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. Responses to this RFI will not be returned. Respondents will not be notified of the result of the review.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20540, United States
- Zip Code: 20540
- Zip Code: 20540
- Record
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