Sustainability of Digital Formats: Planning for Library of Congress Collections |
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Introduction | Sustainability Factors | Content Categories | Format Descriptions | Contact |
Full name | Matroska File Format with LPCM Audio Encoding |
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Description | Matroska file containing an audio essence encoded as Linear Pulse Code Modulated (LPCM). |
Production phase | Middle state, used for storage or archiving |
Relationship to other formats | |
Has subtype | Matroska, Matroska Multimedia Container |
Contains | LPCM, Linear Pulse Code Modulated Audio |
May contain | Video essences and other elements in various encodings. |
LC experience or existing holdings | None |
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LC preference |
Disclosure | Both Mastroska and LPCM are open standards. Matroska is an offshoot of the Multimedia Container Format project. |
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Documentation | The Matroska specification is published online at http://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/index.html. The history of PCM is varied and extends back to at least the 1930s. For a discussion of its history and documentation see LPCM. |
Adoption | Modest adoption of the combination of Matroska and LPCM. One example can be found on the website of the open sourceArchivematica project; LPCM is the preservation encoding for audio and Matroska (MKV) the preservation wrapper format for video files. |
Licensing and patents | See Matroska and LPCM |
Transparency | See Matroska and LPCM |
Self-documentation | See Matroska and LPCM |
External dependencies | See Matroska and LPCM |
Technical protection considerations | See Matroska and LPCM |
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