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Superintendent of Documents Classification Guidelines

Metadata Updated: September 4, 2025

The Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) classification system is used to classify Federal Government publications. The SuDocs Classification Guidelines describe how to apply that system to classify and organize Federal Government publications. The purpose of these guidelines is to convey the current policies for assigning SuDocs classification numbers. The principles of the SuDocs system apply to all U.S. Government publications, regardless of format.

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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://www.fdlp.gov/cataloging-and-classification/classification-guidelines
Data First Published 2021-04-08
Data Last Modified 2025-06-06
Category Government Publications, Data catalog
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency R/P1D
Bureau Code 001:30
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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
Data Dictionary https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Old Spatial National
Program Code 000:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
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