The Digital Formats Web site provides information about digital content formats. The analyses and resources presented here will increase and be updated over time. The compilers, Caroline R. Arms and Carl Fleischhauer, invite feedback on the content.
The goal for this working group is to identify, establish, and disseminate information about standards and practices for the digital reformatting of audio-visual materials by federal agencies. The effort will cover sound and video recordings and will consider the inclusion of motion picture film as the project proceeds. The main focus of the work is on older materials, with the formatting born-digital content to be considered where strong synergy exists. Topic areas include formatting, metadata, and related practices and methodology.
Clever, Crafty, Content Profiling of Objects (c3po) is a software tool prototype, which uses FITS generated data of a digital collection as input and generates a profile of the content set in an automatic fashion. It is designed in a way so that different meta data formats originating from other tools can be easily integrated.
Description Service uses DROID for format identification and JHOVE for format validation and characterization. Based on the identification result, the Format Description Service launches applicable JHOVE validators to perform format validation and characterization. The JHOVE characterization and validation results are then transformed into PREMIS along with applicable standard metadata schema.
a central source for information on all manner of file formats, self-encapsulated information sets that suffer (over time) from falling into obscurity, losing documentation, and otherwise fading while still containing many works out in the world that might need recovery. By providing an institution-neutral, public-domain, easy to navigate site containing this information, the "problem" can be addressed both by users of the Wiki and the many, many related attempts to achieve this goal, all of which can pull this wiki's information back under their roof.
a day for celebrating and raising awareness of Open Standards and formats which takes place on the last Wednesday in March each year. On this day people who believe in fair access to communications technology teach, perform, and demonstrate.
Aim of the project is to address the challenge of implementing good quality standardised file formats for preserving data content in the long term. The main objective is to give memory institutions full control of the process of the conformity tests of files to be ingested into archives.
Initiated by the Library of Congress, BIBFRAME provides a foundation for the future of bibliographic description, both on the web, and in the broader networked world. This site presents general information about the project, including presentations, FAQs, and links to working documents. In addition to being a replacement for MARC, BIBFRAME serves as a general model for expressing and connecting bibliographic data. A major focus of the initiative will be to determine a transition path for the MARC 21 formats while preserving a robust data exchange that has supported resource sharing and cataloging cost savings in recent decades.