5. Media and Formats
See Exemplars and Further Reading
Section 2.9.2 Technical Standards, provides a summary of
preferred formats recommended by AHDS service providers. Further details
are available in individual Guides to Good Practice.
2.
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DLM Forum (1997). Guidelines on Best
Practice for Using Electronic Information.
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http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/dlm/documents/gdlines.pdf
Update 19 March 2008
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Chapter 5, Short- and long-term preservation of electronic
information, offers advice on data storage media (including advice on
storage conditions) and file formats.The latter general advice is "Best
practice is to decide on a common set of standards from the outset to
make it easier to circulate information.
Preferably the same formats should be used for both short-term
and long-term preservation". Both storage media and file formats are grouped
into families, with examples of the major types in each.
One of five guides commissioned by DLF and CLIR and published
with RLG.This guide provides steps in how to select file formats for digital
masters, selecting those based on a combination of performance and durability.
Includes general advice on selecting file formats for images.
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