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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826747403321

Titolo

Digital Preservation in Libraries . part 2

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group, c2004

ISBN

1-280-51438-8

9786610514380

1-84544-174-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (45 p.)

Collana

The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems. No.2 ; ; Vol. 34

Disciplina

025.06

025.06971

Soggetti

Digital preservation

Library materials - Digitization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abstracts & keywords; The role of format in digital preservation; Practical experiences of the Dutch digital preservation test-bed; The preservation of databases; Digital preservation of audio, video and film; ERPANET: a European platform for enabling digital preservation; The digital preservation coalition; Further reading

Sommario/riassunto

The concept of representation format permeates all technical aspects of digital repository architecture and is, therefore, the foundation of many, if not all, digital preservation activities. Digital formats need to be understood both as general classes of encodings and in the specific instances of digital objects. The Digital Library Foundation (DLF) has sponsored an initial investigation into the creation of a global digital format registry (GDRF) to maintain format representation information. Using such information, ancillary tools and services can be created for additional repository and p