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Preservation & Storage Formats for Repositories

Preservation & Storage Formats for Repositories
Preservation & Storage Formats for Repositories
Formats matter if digital content is to be accessible now and preservable in the longer term. Institutional Repositories (IRs), which provide access to and store digital objects produced by many creators, will need to manage a range of formats. This briefing paper explains how formats affect preservation, considers which formats repositories should use for deposit and storage, and describes the practical steps repositories can take to produce an initial preservation plan.
digital preservation, repositories, file formats
Hitchcock, Steve
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Hitchcock, Steve
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Hitchcock, Steve (2008) Preservation & Storage Formats for Repositories.

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Formats matter if digital content is to be accessible now and preservable in the longer term. Institutional Repositories (IRs), which provide access to and store digital objects produced by many creators, will need to manage a range of formats. This briefing paper explains how formats affect preservation, considers which formats repositories should use for deposit and storage, and describes the practical steps repositories can take to produce an initial preservation plan.

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Published date: May 2008
Additional Information: This technical briefing paper was originally produced for the JISC Repositories Support Project
Keywords: digital preservation, repositories, file formats
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 268047
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/268047
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Date deposited: 13 Oct 2009 20:05
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 09:03

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Author: Steve Hitchcock

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