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The Digital Formats Web site provides information about digital content formats. Content categories covered include still images, moving images (video), textual documents, recorded sound (audio), web archives, datasets, geospatial resources, and generic digital formats intended as wrappers or packages for any type of digital content.
As I already briefly mentioned in a previous blog post, one of the objectives of the SCAPE project is to develop an architecture that will...
This tool needs some explanation of how it came about. At Nationaal Archief we were faced with various bottlenecks at ingest for our digital repository...
The digital content format descriptions provide specific information about individual formats and their characteristics. Each description provides moderately detailed information and citations.
On image file formats.
The following is a guest post by Jimi Jones, Audio-Visual Specialist, NDIIPP. A correction was made to this post on July 7, 2011. “What’s the best digital video file format for preservation?” Finding appropriate digital preservation file formats for audiovisual materials is not an easy task.  While much of the recorded sound preservation realm has […]
Standards summaries for video, audio, more
Over the last number of years, JISC and other bodies have funded a number of digital preservation projects which have resulted in some reall...
Tar format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format)#Format_details The tar file format seems to be quite robust as a container: the...
TSK is incorporated into BitCurator.
We have a collection that consists of several thousand documents in various archaic (well, 1980s/90s) word processor formats including Ami P...