1. Publishing and Depository Services Directorate
Chantal Akeson, Manager
Queen’s Printers Association Conference, June 2015

2. Agenda Government of Canada and PWGSC Priorities
PDSD Impacts and Moving Forward
New Technologies
Statistics
Questions

3. Government of Canada and PWGSC Priorities – Driving Change
BluePrint 2020
Client Service Strategy
Open.gc.ca
Web Renewal
GCDOCS

4. 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

5. Client Service Strategy
Engage clients early
Enable employees at all levels to foster service excellence
Offer integrated and effective service solutions

6. 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:
Statistics Canada:

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. PDSD Impacts and Moving Forward
Increased departmental partnerships and outreach
Increased demand including all documents for public consumption
Process review and optimization
Organizational restructuring

10. 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

11. 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 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 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.

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