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D-Lib Mar/Apr 2014 Rimkus et al. |
Digital Preservation File Format Policies of ARL Member Libraries: An Analysis While concerted efforts have been made in the library community to encourage common standards, digital preservation policies regularly vary from one digital library service to another.  |
D-Lib January 2000 Gail M. Hodge |
Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach Digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm. It is more easily corrupted or altered without recognition...  |
IEEE Spectrum July 2005 MacKenzie Smith |
External Bits How can we preserve digital files and save our collective memory? The open-source DSpace project sees not only the problem of preserving the data, but also making it readable, playable or watchable many years later.  |
Popular Mechanics December 2006 Brad Reagan |
The Digital Ice Age The documents of our time are being recorded as bits and bytes with no guarantee of future readability. As technologies change, will our files be frozen in forgotten formats?  |
D-Lib November 2004 Andreas Stanescu |
Assessing the Durability of Formats in a Digital Preservation Environment: The INFORM Methodology Clearly, the process of measuring the preservation durability of digital formats is best done in collaboration with digital archives, global registries, institutional repositories, digital libraries, digital format experts, software and hardware developers and researchers.  |
D-Lib January 2005 David S. H. Rosenthal et al. |
Transparent Format Migration of Preserved Web Content The design of digital preservation systems must anticipate obsolescence, and incorporate a strategy by which the content they preserve will still be understood by readers after multiple generations of formats have become obsolete.  |
Information Today November 28, 2005 Richard W. Wiggins |
British Library and Others Join Microsoft in Document Standards Effort Seeking to promote digital preservation of documents composed in Microsoft Office formats, the British Library and a number of other enterprises have joined Microsoft's effort to define a new standard for Office Open XML.  |
D-Lib Nov?Dec 2010 Noonan et al. |
PDF/A: A Viable Addition to the Preservation Toolkit We describe the format itself, the lessons learned as the authors investigated the tools readily available for creating PDF/A files and the design of the pilot to test implementation of the use of the format in The Ohio State University's repository, the Knowledge Bank.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Theron Westervelt |
Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications: Encouraging Preservation Without Discouraging Creation The Library of Congress has devised the Recommended Format Specifications to enable it to identify what formats will most easily lend themselves to preservation and long-term access, especially with regard to digital formats.  |
D-Lib September 2001 Dale Flecker |
Preserving Scholarly E-Journals For research libraries, the long-term preservation of digital collections may well be the most important issue in digital libraries. In certain ways, digital materials are incredibly fragile, dependent for their continued utility upon technologies that undergo rapid and continual change...  |
D-Lib October 2000 Stewart Granger |
Emulation as a Digital Preservation Strategy Many libraries and archives are in the process of `going digital'. What are the issues with respect to emulation as a digital preservation strategy?  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2015 Nathan Brown |
Helping Members of the Community Manage Their Digital Lives: Developing a Personal Digital Archiving Workshop This article explores resources and methods that could be used in the development of a personal digital archiving workshop and how to best tailor it to your library audience.  |
D-Lib February 2005 |
The eXtensible Past: The Relevance of the XML Data Format for Access to Historical Datasets and a Strategy for Digital Preservation Reports on investigations carried out by the Netherlands Historical Data Archive into the relevance of the XML data format and the "Open Archives" paradigm on the long-term preservation and dissemination of historical datasets.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 von Suchodoletz et al. |
Report on the First iPres Workshop on Practical Emulation Tools and Strategies The International Conference on Digital Preservation is an established annual event bringing together practitioners and researchers in the digital preservation community, engaging individuals, organizations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in digital libraries.  |
D-Lib May 2002 William G. LeFurgy |
Levels of Service for Digital Repositories This article outlines conditions that govern the persistence of digital materials and suggests a model for future levels of service for digital repositories...  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2008 Andres Imhof |
Using International Standards to Develop a Union Catalogue for Archives in Germany The project brings together in a collaborative portal the finding aids from archival records on SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany) and FDGB (Free German Trade Union Federation) from five eastern German state archives.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2013 Michael Rumianek |
Archiving and Recovering Database-driven Websites In this paper, a procedure is presented that overcomes the problems faced by archivists of database-driven websites.  |
InternetNews May 23, 2005 Jim Wagner |
A Standard Set For The Office Officials at the non-profit standards body OASIS, announced its approval of the OpenDocuments 1.0 specification as a standard XML format for text, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents.  |
D-Lib April 2000 Peter Hirtle |
Digital Paleography Paleography is the science and art of reading and deciphering old or obscure handwriting. What does paleography and ancient handwriting have to do with digital libraries? Preservation of digital file formats is of increasing concern to the digital library community.  |
PC Magazine January 20, 2004 Leon Erlanger |
Memories that Last Tips for storing digital audio, images, and documents. Includes a discussion of file formats and archival media.  |
InternetNews October 3, 2005 Jim Wagner |
PDFs Native to The New Office Microsoft's upcoming Office suite will include support for the format. Will Adobe feel the pressure?  |
InternetNews February 15, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft 'Frees' Office Formats Microsoft places code and specs for its old Office binary file formats under its "no lawsuit" program; begins open source project.  |
Linux Journal February 1, 2007 Marcel Gagne |
Cooking with Linux - Words, Words, Words... When it comes to being understood and sharing information, it's not just about open source, it's about open standards.  |
PC Magazine November 30, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
Small Pictures Become Huge Documents in Word A number of readers are mystified by a file-size anomaly in Microsoft Word.  |
PC World September 2005 Lincoln Spector |
Preserve Your Most Vital Data for the Long Haul Take these steps to keep your important information safe for many years... Convert your WMA files to MP3... Password Safe...  |
InternetNews November 22, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Microsoft Wants Open XML as Doc Standard Redmond modifies the license for its Office Open XML file format and pushes for standards adoption.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2008 Catherine C. Marshall |
Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving Part 2: Implications for Services, Applications, and Institutions Implications of accumulation, distribution, digital stewardship, and long-term access in digital archiving, and some promising technological directions and requirements for each of these four issues.  |
InternetNews May 21, 2007 Clint Boulton |
Microsoft, China Translate Files in Open Source Microsoft today said it is funding an open source translator project between China's Unified Office Format and the Ecma Open XML file formats.  |
D-Lib January 2004 Schonfeld et al. |
Library Periodicals Expenses Comparison of non-subscription costs of print and electronic formats on a life-cycle basis  |
D-Lib May 2003 Priscilla Caplan |
XML in Libraries Reading XML in Libraries, edited by Roy Tennant, gave me once again a powerful sense of the vigor and creativity with which we seize upon new technologies. The book features a baker's dozen of short case studies describing various library-related applications using XML in some way.  |
Information Today January 14, 2010 |
Ex Libris Announces the Beta Release of Rosetta Version 2.0 The system enables institutions to manage, preserve, and provide access to documents for perpetuity-institutional documents, research output in digital formats, digital images, websites, and other digitally born and digitized materials.  |
Wired July 20, 2009 Bryan Gardiner |
Burning Question: How Do I Future-Proof My Digital Media? Digital media is not immune to the winds of time.  |
InternetNews August 7, 2009 |
A Ballot for Microsoft Office Users In Europe? Office may let users choose to set the default to save files in either ODF or OOXML.  |
D-Lib April 2003 Helen R. Tibbo |
Review: Encoded Archival Description on the Internet The articles in this book discuss the fundamentals of archival arrangement and description and illustrate how EAD facilitates descriptive practice and extends reference and access in an electronic networked environment.  |
InternetNews January 29, 2007 Ed Sutherland |
Adobe Ramps Up PDF Standards Push On the eve of the unveiling of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, Adobe announced it will push for its ubiquitous PDF format to become an international standard.  |
InternetNews June 2, 2005 Clint Boulton |
Microsoft to Adopt XML Formats in Office 12 Microsoft said it will use XML technology as the default file formats for the next version of its productivity software, Office 12.  |
PC World August 23, 2002 Martyn Williams |
Sony Set to Unveil Multi-Format DVD Drive New drive will simplify the standards battle by supporting two competing recordable DVD formats.  |
PC Magazine March 16, 2005 Helen Bradley |
Conditional Formatting in Excel Make the information in your spreadsheets more accessible with formatting based on certain conditions.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2016 Becker et al. |
The Benchmarking Forum at IPRES 2015 The International Conference on Digital Preservation, brought practitioners to discuss opportunities and challenges in adopting software benchmarking as a systematic tool for evaluating digital preservation tools.  |
PC Magazine March 2, 2004 Luisa Simone |
A Guide to Graphics File Formats We'll help you decide which file format is best for your needs. You can gain more control over the quality and size of your images by picking the right format for the job.  |
Home Toys October 2002 |
What is Digital? An Exploration of Terms and Usage So many things come with the digital designation the true concept of what digital actually is has become diluted over time.  |
CIO July 1, 2001 Tim Bray |
XML: Three Letters Every CIO Should Know In a world ruled by data, it's time for a tool that protects you from the future...  |
PC Magazine December 14, 2004 Neil J. Rubenking |
Excel's Custom Formats Q: The user wanted to format a cell in Excel so that if its value is positive, it is formatted with the Accounting format and looks like this: "$ 456 "... A: To create your custom format, first format one cell with the Accounting format...  |
BusinessWeek February 2, 2004 Heather Green |
Which Format Will Win? A pitched battle for control of the music-downloading business is raging among Apple, Microsoft, RealNetworks, and Sony. Their weapons: software used to buy and listen to music downloads on computers and portable devices.  |
InternetNews January 7, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
HD DVD Down, But Still Not Out The loss of Warner Bros. struck a blow for Blu-ray's supporters, but analysts say the high-definition format battle is far from over.  |
PC Magazine July 13, 2005 Sebastian Rupley |
Flipping File Formats Big changes are coming in the next version of Microsoft Office. Office 12 will have new XML-based file formats for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. The OpenXML format will be the default for any file you create.  |
The Motley Fool October 4, 2010 Anders Bylund |
Can Google Change the Internet? Big G keeps creating alternatives to the most basic components of the Internet. Does any of it really matter?  |
InternetNews September 28, 2004 Michael Singer |
Open Office XML May Satisfy ISO A letter to Sun Microsystems' COO Jonathan Schwartz by the European Commission this week may set the stage for the International Organization for Standardization to adopt the Open Office XML format as an ISO standard.  |
D-Lib September 2006 Bonita Wilson |
Preserving Information, Not Formats Dealing with materials that have existed solely in digital format is easier than contemplating what to do with print materials for which there is no longer space or budget available for maintenance.  |
PC Magazine June 1, 2005 Neil J. Rubenking |
Eliminate Formatting in Outlook Or Outlook Express Whether you reply or copy/paste, cleaning up formatting in HTML-based e-mail messages can be tough. Here are some tips.  |