This post is part of the File Format Friends series and provides an overview of the updates to the Sustainability of Digital Formats site since June 2025. It discusses additions and updates to the MXF, PNG, and PDF formats, and new file format descriptions and analysis for YAML and APNG. The post also briefly covers planned work for the coming months.
This post details the exciting transformation of the Historical Media Publications Collection, a challenging digital collection of historical media industry magazines spanning the late 19th to mid-20th century. Expanding online presentation from dense bound volumes into searchable, issue-level resources, this collaborative project improved discoverability and usability of this collection and set a foundation for working with other serialized content though innovative new workflows and next-generation content management.
Hana Beckerle and Spencer Zidarich of the Library’s Collections Digitization Division (CDD) have been named as the Library of Congress co-leads for the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Still Image Working Group, effective July 1, 2025. In their new roles, they will provide leadership and direction for the working group, coordinate group meetings and projects, and represent the Library serving as liaisons on still image digitization issues.
The Library of Congress has published the updated 2025-2026 Recommended Formats Statement. Updates have been made to preferred and accepted formats across multiple content categories, and are captured in a Change Log.
This post is the most recent in a series about file format research for the Library of Congress' Sustainability of Digital Formats site. The post highlights new format description documents as well as updated information on support for digital accessibility features, such as screen readers, alt text, captions and audio description.
