Gale’s Premier Platform for 20th Century Studies: Declassified Documents Reference System
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Gale’s Premier Platform for 20th Century Studies:
Declassified Documents Reference System
Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS)
95,000+ documents from 1941 forward
Includes mainly documents in presidential libraries declassified by FOIA
Documents declassified by Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests
450K pages scanned from the microfiche edition (also available from PSM)
Searchable fulltext keyed in by hand (we’re changing this to OCR)
Bibliographical information and abstracts added by PSM
All documents can be searched fulltext
The below are NOT included:
Documents automatically declassified according to 30-year/25-year rule
Published documents that are widely available
The “Retrospective Collection: pre-1975” (1,020 fiche) of the microfiche edition
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Administrative
Departments
Presidential
Libraries
Citizens/Researchers
Online ed.
FOIA request
Scanning/
Run OCR
Microfiche ed.
Indexing/Abstracting
Transfer docs to
libraries
SECRET
Document
declassified and
provided in copy
SECRETDeclassified
Provide microform
DDRS: How Documents are Included
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DDRS: Functionalities
Available Search Indexes:
Keyword/Subject
Full Text
Title/Abstract
Source Institution
Issue Date
Date Declassified
Document Type
Source Institution
Classification Level
Sanitization
Completeness
Number of Pages
Sorting Options:
Relevancy
Date Issued
Saving/Marking Documents
Mark documents
Permanent URL s
Print PDF
DDRS: Source Institutions
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Finally!! - Additional ContentFinally!! - Additional Content
• Total Pages Currently Online: 595,000 (= 95,000 individual documents)
• Last content update: 2007!
• Lag in content updating has been awaited by customers
Newly Digitized and Loading:
• 173,000 pages
• 21,600 documents• We are continually
acquiring new content, so we can be prepared for future loads
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Recently Acquired New Content Addresses the customer issue:Recently Acquired New Content Addresses the customer issue:“More documents, now!“More documents, now!””
We are adding documents released to the DDRS microfiche publication between 2007 and 2012
Includes documents from:
– Presidential libraries
– Executive Departments
– National Security Council
– Joint Chiefs of Staff
– FBI
– Department of Defense
– Many other source libraries
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What is being done….Previously, DDRS included keyed text (not OCR text) along with the document images.
Today, we are now moving to an OCR model and away from a time-restrictive and costly keyed-text model.
TWO DELIVERABLES:
1. Abundant Content Load
2. Turn off button in product (see illustration) so the “view text” option is no longer available to end-users after the content load is completed
We will turn-off
this button
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View recently-released documents on a variety of topics
The new DDRS content includes all 20 FBI
“interviews” of Saddam Hussein, along with
documents on the search for Saddam’s
weapons of mass destruction
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View recently-released documents on a variety of topics
Documents on the Global War on Terrorism
extend from the 1970s to the 21st century,
culled from a variety of agencies.
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More recently-released documents…The addition of new content provides
historical documents on the evolution of the
Brown Berets and the militant Chicano
movement, as well as other militant groups in
the 1960s and 1970s.
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More recently-released documents…
“…His brain has not
only been washed,
as they say... It has
been dry cleaned…“
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More recently-released documents…
There are newly-released
documents that provide unique
revelations on the conduct of the
Vietnam War.
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More recently-released documents…
Declassified documents highlight the
extent of Hoover’s paranoia with the
Communist infiltration of the motion
picture industry.
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