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The digital preservation community is a connected and collaborative one. I first heard about the Europe-based PREFORMA project last summer at a Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative meeting when we were discussing the Digital File Formats for Videotape Reformatting comparison matrix. My interest was piqued because I heard about their incorporation of FFV1 and Matroska, […]
Table of Contents for Recommended Formats Statement (RFS). RFS identifies analog and digital formats suitable for the large-scale acquisition of and long-term access to library collections. The identified formats have been selected to maximize the preservation and accessibility of creative content into the future.
The TIFF/A standard initiative is a group of experts focusing on the definition of a specification of a Archival TIFF Format, TIFF/A. TIFF is widely used by memory institutions to preserve their digital images. However, the specification of TIFF is complex and some of its features are proprietary an therefore not suitable for long-term archival purposes. Continue reading →
On the death of Flash.
If you ask Anthony Weiner, digital records—especially those on the Internet—can seem impossibly hard to get rid of. When a picture…
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A curious illustration of the lossiness of the mp3 format.
What affects the ability of the Library to preserve a given format? These sustainability factors apply to all formats: disclosure, adoption, transparency, self-documentation, external dependencies, impact of patents, technical protection mechanisms.
The two FADGI Working Groups are exploring file formats for still images and video. The explorations are using similar, matrix-based tools to make comparisons relevant to preservation planning.
The ‘Archival Exchange Format’ has been standardized by SMPTE with participants from organizations including Disney, Universal and the Library of Congress
At the 2014 Society of American Archivists meeting, the CAD/BIM Taskforce held a session titled “Frameworks for the Discussion of Architectural Digital Data” to consider the daunting matter of archiving computer-aided design and Building Information Modelling files. This was the latest evidence that — despite some progress in standards and file exchange — the digital preservationist […]
Table of Contents for Recommended Formats Statement (RFS). RFS identifies analog and digital formats suitable for the large-scale acquisition of and long-term access to library collections. The identified formats have been selected to maximize the preservation and accessibility of creative content into the future.
Since 2001, Avantstar has been focused on solving digital content viewing challenges faced by businesses, government agencies and legal organizations throughout the world.
Recently, we’ve started to add email formats to the Sustainability of Digital Formats website. Eventually, when we get a more robust collection, we’d like to split them out into a separate content category but for now, they (mostly) are categorized with their closest cousin, the Textual Content family.  Our genealogical research is still very much […]
Apple's iWork update won't let you access documents created as little as five years ago. The solution is obvious
New open source developer consortium promises to end upgrade arms race, enabling users to reclaim orphaned documents
Embedding random files in random formats in a PDF is potentially problematic for preservation. WHOODATHUNKIT.
We’re lucky in the digital stewardship community that our challenges tend to be non life-threatening. Still, when we get fired up about something there is guaranteed to be spirited debate and passionate advocacy on all sides. Such was the case with the release of the PDF/A-3 file format specification in October 2012. We wrote about […]
The following is a guest post from Lee Nilsson, a National Digital Stewardship Resident working with the Repository Development Center at The Library of Congress.  The 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship makes a clear-cut case for the development of File Format Action Plans to combat format obsolescence issues. “Now that stewardship organizations are amassing large collections of digital […]