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Archive: September 2020 (3 Posts)

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Connect with The Signal at the 2020 National Book Festival

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

By the People at the National Book Festival Tomorrow, Friday 9/25, marks the beginning of the 20th Library of Congress National Book Festival! Representatives from across the Library will be hosting festival-goers via virtual booths, where visitors can connect with their favorite Library programs and collections. A member of the By the People team will be …

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How to Write a FDD in 149 Easy Steps: Learning to Evaluate Digital File Formats

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

Today’s guest post is from Marcus Nappier, who is a Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress maintains over 470 format description documents (FDDs) on the Sustainability of Digital Formats website that provide information about file-formats, bit stream structures and encodings, and their usage in …