Publishing and Depository Services Directorate Chantal Akeson, Manager chantal.akeson@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca Queen’s Printers Association Conference, June 2015
Agenda Government of Canada and PWGSC Priorities PDSD Impacts and Moving Forward New Technologies Statistics Questions
Government of Canada and PWGSC Priorities – Driving Change BluePrint 2020 Client Service Strategy Open.gc.ca Web Renewal GCDOCS
BluePrint 2020 Innovation Virtual collaboration with external partners Crowdsourcing Innovation Transformation Reasonable rules Lean processes Timely results Ongoing Renewal Regular review of programs and services Widespread adoption of common and shared services Effective and efficient business processes
Client Service Strategy Engage clients early Enable employees at all levels to foster service excellence Offer integrated and effective service solutions
Open.gc.ca Government of Canada trending to Open by Default Open data Open information Open dialogue Open Licence Examples Open Government of Canada license: http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada Statistics Canada: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/reference/licence-eng
Web Renewal Streamlining the Government of Canada Web Presence Offering single portal for centralized discovery through metadata and CKAN Physical information artifacts or products remain in departmental custody and responsibility.
GCDOCS The new official enterprise document and records management solution of the Government of Canada. Automated bilingual archiving and information management system. Functions can be adjusted to meet organizations' requirements. Information management tool helping organizations to meet obligations related to life cycle management.
PDSD Impacts and Moving Forward Increased departmental partnerships and outreach Increased demand including all documents for public consumption Process review and optimization Organizational restructuring
New Technologies TECHNOLOGY / TOOLS Integrated Library System (Vsmart) New Weekly Acquisitions List (replacing the former Weekly Checklist and Supplementary Checklist) Dynamic list that includes all publications added to our collection in a given week regardless of date of publication Now cataloguing in MARC 21 format FTP - Departmental file transfers using file transfer protocol Departments each have usernames and passwords Able to transfer large files quickly and easily
Statistics Fiscal Year 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15** Page Views 7.1 M 8.9 M 15.5 M 15.4 M 44.7 M Visitors 3.4 M 4 M 2.9 M* 4.2 M 8.2 M PDF downloads 5.7 M 7 M 9.4 M 11.8 M 9.7 M Bibliographic records 202,274 225,672 250,357 270,585 286,448 Electronic publications 83,055 102,234 124,276 143,109 158,448 * The reason that Visitors shows a decrease for 2012-13 is because it is the first full fiscal year where data from the DSP Web site was not included in the analysis (it was decommissioned in December 2011). ** The numbers reported for 2014-15 are different from previous years because statistics are being aggregated from two separate Web analytical tools. We are currently working with our IT partners to streamline these figures.
Questions? Contact us: publications@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca