Records Mgmt & Archiving : Rubrik:Formats

Expansion of PRONOM

jhagmann — 2010-12-09T07:04:00Z

from:
Mark Conrad
NARA Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies
on ERECS listserv

The National Archives of the United Kingdom and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of the United States issued press releases on 6 December 2010 concerning the expansion of the PRONOM database. "PRONOM is a web-based public technical registry of more than 750 different digital file formats that enables digital archivists, records managers and the public to precisely identify and confirm digital file formats. This identification is the first step to ensuring long-term electronic file preservation by enabling the identification of those file formats that are in danger of becoming obsolete."

NARA's Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies (NCAST) Research Partners from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and the Army Research Lab (ARL) have increased the number of internal signatures in the PRONOM database by almost 25%. They will continue to add more internal signatures over the coming months. The NCAST Research Partners are also contributing to improvements to the underlying technology used in PRONOM and DROID.

You can find the full text of the press releases here:

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2011/nr11-31.html

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/519.htm

You can find more information about the research collaboration between NCAST, GTRI, and ARL here:

http://www.archives.gov/ncast/gtri/

http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/?p=3737

You can keep up with NCAST developments by following the Tech Tuesdays channel on the NARAtions blog here:

http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/?cat=52

Langzeitarchivierung: PDF/A kontrovers

jhagmann — 2009-10-18T13:19:00Z

Carsten Heiermann, Geschäftsführer bei Luratech Europe, und Jörg Rogalla, Bereichsleiter ECM bei C1 Solutions, erklären, warum sich der PDF/A-Einsatz zur Langzeitarchivierung durchsetzen wird oder auch nicht.

Link:
http://www.it-director.de/startseite/itd-news/artikel/339/pro-contra-pdfa-zur-langzeitarchivierung.html?tx_ttnews[pS]=1253933105&cHash=4e7eac1900

PDF als ISO-Norm - PDF format becomes ISO standard

jhagmann — 2008-07-17T20:00:00Z

The Portable Document Format (PDF), undeniably one of the most commonly used formats for electronic documents, is now accessible as an ISO International Standard - ISO 32000-1.

ISO press release

PDF & PDF/A

jhagmann — 2008-06-08T20:15:00Z

The Digital Preservation Coalition, whose members include the UK National Archives and the British Library, says organizations must combine PDF/A with a comprehensive records management program and formally established records policies and procedures to ensure their electronic documents will be preserved.

see excellent Tech Watch Report incl. PDF history (by Betsy Fanning): http://www.dpconline.org/docs/reports/dpctw08-02.pdf

see also:
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1749160778;fp;2;fpid;2

and

CIO Magazine

SNIA plant Einführung eines neuen Standardformats

jhagmann — 2008-05-17T05:39:00Z

Die Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) plant die Einführung eines neuen Standardformats mit der Bezeichnung Self-Describing Self-Contained Data Format (SD-SCDF) zum Erhalt und zur langfristigen Aufbewahrung von Daten.

Artikel

Neues Dateiformat für die Langzeitarchivierung?

jhagmann — 2008-05-07T20:00:00Z

Katalog archivischer Dateiformate

jhagmann — 2008-03-19T08:58:00Z

Im letzten Jahr hat die Koordinationsstelle für die dauerhafte Archivierung
elektronischer Unterlagen (KOST), unterstützt von Arbeitsgruppen des VSA,
einen "Katalog archivischer Dateiformate" (KaD) erarbeitet.

Der KaD ist ab sofort unter der URL

http://www.kost-ceco.ch/wiki/whelp/KaD/

frei zugänglich.

Die KOST macht dazu eine Informationsveranstaltung, um den Katalog der schweiz.
Archivwelt vorzustellen.
Diese Veranstaltung findet am 24. April um 13:30 Uhr im Schweizerischen
Bundesarchiv in Bern statt.
Die Teilnahme steht allen Interessierten offen und ist kostenlos.
Anmeldungen bis am 17.4. an info@kost-ceco.ch

File format typing and format registries (AHDS)

jhagmann — 2008-01-21T21:59:00Z

A very useful list of registries for file formats

see: Registries-AHDS (rtf, 196 KB)

from Arts and Humanities Data Service
http://ahds.ac.uk/