Sustainability of Digital Formats Research

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While working in the Digital Collections Management and Services Division, 2021 Junior Fellows Jacob Kowall and Hilary Szu Yin Shiue assisted in updating and expanding the Sustainability of Digital Formats website (the Formats site). This website provides information and analysis for over 500 digital file formats and offers guidance on the long-term preservation of digital content at the Library. The Junior Fellows were responsible for maintaining the Library's file format description documents (FDDs), which involved updating broken links and verifying accuracy. Based on collections data and user analytics, the Fellows recommended research priorities and provided updates to the FDDs' most commonly used file formats. They performed cross-walking between the Formats site and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority list of registered media types, and assisted in generating a user-friendly controlled vocabulary for Stacks (the Library's interface for on-site viewing of rights-restricted digital content). Additionally, they thoroughly researched and linked FDDs with other authoritative resources such as Wikidata and PRONOM - the UK National Archives technical registry. The Fellows also improved the Formats site's integration with international file format projects, and assisted with providing current information on file formats to users at the Library of Congress and throughout the international digital preservation community. Through their work, the Fellows assist in providing…

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Licence or status

Rights statement at the Library of Congress, as the Library of Congress states it.

Credit

Library of Congress

Language

English

Country

United States

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