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Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
This post is part of the semi-annual blog series on file format research for the Sustainability of Digital Formats site at the Library of Congress, and provides updates on new and updated file format description documents.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
The digital preservation landscape is ever-evolving, and the Library of Congress has recently made a significant update to its Recommended Formats Statement (RFS), to upgrade FFV1 (version 3) in Matroska (.mkv) container from an "Acceptable Format" to one of five "Preferred Formats" for the preservation and long-term access of video materials, reflecting its ongoing commitment to staying at the forefront of audiovisual preservation.
Posted in: Digital Content, FADGI, Formats
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Andrew Cassidy-Amstutz, Kate Murray, Marcus Nappier, Camille Salas, and Trevor Owens of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress recently completed a project to analyze the technical characteristics of a substantial set of eBook and eJournal files in the permanent collection and available for onsite access in Stacks, the …
Posted in: Formats, Guest Posts, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
This post is provides updates to the Library of Congress's Recommended Formats Statement for 2023-2024.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Liz Holdzkom
This post is part of the blog series on file format research for the Sustainability of Digital Formats site at the Library of Congress, and provides updates on new and updated file format description documents.
Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, Formats, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Digital Projects Coordinator in Digital Collections Management and Services and Charles Hosale at American Folklife Center, both from the Library of Congress. I have said more than once that ‘FADGI’, pronounced ‘fah-gee’ and short for the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative, is a terrible acronym (Charles quips “Hey, …
Posted in: Digital Preservation, FADGI, Formats, Guest Posts, Outreach and Events, Partners and Collaboration, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Hana Beckerle, a Digital Imaging Specialist in the Digitization Services Section at the Library of Congress. The Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Still Image Working Group has finalized the Third Edition of its influential Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials. The Working Group published a draft version of the …
Posted in: FADGI, Formats, Guest Posts
Posted by: Carlyn Osborn
Today’s guest post is from Kristy Darby, a Digital Collections Specialist at the Library of Congress. The Open Access Books Collection on loc.gov includes approximately 6,000 contemporary open access e-books covering a wide range of subjects, including history, music, poetry, technology, and works of fiction. All books in this collection were published under open access licenses, …
Posted in: Formats, Guest Posts, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Marcus Nappier, and Liz Holdzkom of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division at the Library of Congress. Fun with File Formats is back with another installment! Our first two blog posts from December 2021 and June 2022 were very popular with readers of The Signal. No surprise that there are …
Posted in: Digital Preservation, Formats, Guest Posts, Tools and Infrastructure