Sustainability of Digital Formats: Planning for Library of Congress Collections
Sustainability of Digital Formats: Planning for Library of Congress Collections |
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| Introduction | Sustainability Factors | Content Categories | Format Descriptions | Contact | |
| Background information and overview: What is a format? How shall we evaluate formats? What projects in other organizations are addressing these questions? | Overview | Formats, Evaluation Factors, and Relationships | Papers and Presentations | Related Resources |
| What affects the ability of the Library to preserve content in a given format? These sustainability factors apply to all formats. | Disclosure | Adoption | Transparency | Self-documentation | External Dependencies | Impact of Patents | Technical Protection Mechanisms |
| The evaluation of formats must take into account quality and functionality. These factors vary according to the type of content under consideration and the categories will be expanded as time passes. | Still Image | Sound | Textual | Moving Image | Web Archive | Datasets | Geospatial | Generic | Browse All Formats |
| Documents with more information about specific formats. | Browse categories | Browse alphabetical list | Format Descriptions as XML |
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