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Government PUblishing Office Cataloging Guidelines

Metadata Updated: September 4, 2025

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Cataloging Guidelines are intended to provide specific examples and practices that are unique to the cataloging and creation of various types of metadata for U.S. Government information published by all three branches of the Federal Government and in all formats. These guidelines are used by staff at GPO but are also intended for use by staff in Federal depository libraries and library staff in other institutions who handle, process, or use U.S. Government information.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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Dates

Metadata Created Date September 4, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 4, 2025
Data Update Frequency R/P1D

Metadata Source

Harvested from gpo-json-2

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 4, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 4, 2025
Publisher United States Government Publishing Office
Maintainer
Identifier https://fdlp.gov/cataloging-and-classification/cataloging-guidelines
Data First Published 2021-03-31
Data Last Modified 2024-08-07
Category Government Publications, Data catalog
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency R/P1D
Bureau Code 001:30
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Harvest Object Id 717c72d2-5b2b-4f6a-906b-6b11808fe8fd
Harvest Source Id 8309e387-0264-4cfb-8e14-84ef511fa69b
Harvest Source Title gpo-json-2
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Old Spatial National
Program Code 000:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 9804cf837803803da179e39e9ddcbd0a94ac3e880fe160d58930ca8646588a39
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":-124.733253,24.544245,-124.733253,49.388611,-66.954811,49.388611,-66.954811,24.544245,-124.733253,24.544245}

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