Blogs about: File Formats
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Library of Congress site on the Sustainability of Digital Formats
This site contains some detailed technical analyses of file formats suitable for long term preservation, as viewed through the lense of the LOC’s collecting policy. The site was compiled by Caro… more »
Alans notes and thoughts on digital preservation
Microsoft Releases Binary File Specs
rjbiii wrote 2 weeks ago: Microsoft has posted detailed specifications of its pre-2007 Office file formats, and protocols buil … more »
Microsoft Releases Open XML SDK; Announces future support of ODF
rjbiii wrote 1 month ago: According to an article in TechWorld, Microsoft has released a software developer kit (SDK) for mani … more »
Library of Congress site on the Sustainability of Digital Formats
alanake wrote 2 months ago: This site contains some detailed technical analyses of file formats suitable for long term preservat … more »
DNG submitted as ISO standard
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maxphotofun wrote 2 months ago: Adobe have submitted the DNG (Digital Negative) RAW file format to the ISO as a proposed new standar … more »
The Memory Divide
Rikk Flohr wrote 3 months ago: A call from my sister-in-law last night and a simple request got me to thinking about the wet-digita … more »
"Evaluating File Formats for Long-Term Preservation": a report by the National Library of the Netherlands
alanake wrote 3 months ago: The Koninklijke Bibliotheek in the Netherlands has produced a report Evaluating File Formats for Lon … more »
e-GIF: the UK eGovernment Interoperability Framework
alanake wrote 5 months ago: An e-government based interoperability network. One of its guiding principles is that UK public sect … more »
"Planning and Implementing Electronic Records Management" by Kelvin Smith
alanake wrote 5 months ago: Planning and Implementing Electronic Records Management: a practical guide (Hardcover) by Kelvin S … more »
Summary of our organisation's current digital preservation strategy
alanake wrote 6 months ago: Here’s what got approved last year: Records are always accepted for preservation if they (a) … more »
Spreadsheet authenticity
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alanake wrote 6 months ago: Preserving a spreadsheet on its own isn’t enough. As with word processed documents, you need t … more »
Open Document Format
alanake wrote 6 months ago: Unlike Microsoft’s suite, which creates files in a proprietary formats, Open Office’s fi … more »
Conversion to RTF
alanake wrote 6 months ago: RTF is Rich Text Format. Microsoft have published the format, so in that sense it’s open, but … more »
Word processed documents
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alanake wrote 6 months ago: You might think that word processed documents would be simple to preserve, but in fact they are not. … more »
Online storage of data
alanake wrote 6 months ago: Google Documents (for instance) makes no promises about keeping your data forever. Instead they act … more »
Excel spreadsheets
alanake wrote 6 months ago: Dutch Digital Preservation Testbed, From digital volatility to digital permanence, part two: preserv … more »
Backwards compatibility: notes from blogs
alanake wrote 6 months ago: Backwards compatibility depends on software companies. “Microsoft doesn’t want to suppor … more »
Deprecated features in Excel 2007
alanake wrote 6 months ago: Deprecated features in Excel 2007: (from http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2006/08/24/718786.aspx, … more »
Why is proprietary bad?
alanake wrote 6 months ago: Firstly because the software company can change the licensing rules. At present Word is not the only … more »
The situation may not be as bad as we thought
alanake wrote 6 months ago: Digging Up Bits of the Past: Hands-on With Obsolescence, by Richard Entlich - Cornell University (rg … more »
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