Learn about the Library’s approach to managing digital file formats over time.
Digital Formats
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Digital Acquisitions File Formats This guidance details how the Library determines policy and standards related to file formats, and how these decisions impact collection development, acquisition, and preservation planning.
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Bit Level Preservation and Long Term Usability This guidance expresses to what extent the Library preserves all digital collections material and what factors impact future renderability of digital content.
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Maintenance of Original Formats This guidance clarifies the Library's approach to maintaining digital collections file formats upon ingest as received.
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Digital Surrogate Creation and Management This guidance outlines the procedures and guidelines governing the creation of digital surrogates of the Library's analog collections.
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Inventorying and Tracking Digital Formats In Use This guidance explains the Library's approach and responsibility to monitor the inventory of file formats in its digital collections.