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In late 2009, the LII began a joint study with the Federal Depository Library program of the United States Library of Congress, the Government Printing Office, and the Office of the Federal Register to work through technical issues in producing a web version of the Code of Federal Regulations.. This session discusses some of the challenges LII faced and explores some of the implications for open access initiatives.

For those with some experience with establishing an maintaining scholarly and other document repositories, the problem of gathering quality metadata for cataloging and retrieval is well known. The solution is to find methods to extract metadata from existing documents by the most efficient means available. Social tagging, and various commercial products, and getting authors to fill out forms present themselves as solutions, but typically fall far short of what is needed.