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Archive: March 2014 (19 Posts)

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It’s Not Just Integrity: Fixity Data in Digital Sound and Moving Image Files

Posted by: Kate Murray

This blog post is co-authored by Carl Fleischhauer, Project Manager, Digital Initiatives, Library of Congress. People who manage audio and video files over time, do create fixity data, aka hash values or checksums, to help monitor the condition of those files in storage and when moved from one system or media to another system or …