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Kathleen O'Neill is currently serving as one of two Staff Innovators at the Library of Congress. Their 2020 project, Born Digital Access Now!, explores existing pathways for accessing born digital materials in the Manuscript Division. In this series of blog posts, Kathleen describes the complexities of gaining access to born digital materials even before they reach researchers. This is the second post in the series and focuses on legacy file formats through the metaphor of being "lost in translation."
A proposed new spec for distributing web archive collections - GitHub - webrecorder/wacz-format: A proposed new spec for distributing web archive collections
Learn more about Smithsonian Digital Asset Management System (DAMS)
15 out of the 28 biggest desktop PDF viewers are vulnerable, German academics say.
I was actually a little relieved when I learned that JPEG2000 was used in the DCI digital cinema standard. I was feeling so bad for it!
Why they’re a problem and what to do about it
NARA digital preservation file format risk analysis and preservation plans - GitHub - usnationalarchives/digital-preservation: NARA digital preservation file format risk analysis and preservation p...
THIS IS SO MUCH FUN OMG
Currently, most archives who adopted the video codec FFV1 use it as a preservation format for tape digitisation. I plan on documenting my tests regarding the transcoding of RGB DPX and TIFF scans t…
The veraPDF project, definitive, open source PDF/A validation.
Since the early 1990s, John has stored all his records using the Superbase database, but he reckons it won’t run in Windows 10. Are there still ways to run 16-bit software or is it time to move on?
Detects original formats; migrates to open formats.