Evaluating File Formats for Long-term Preservation
National and international publishers have been depositing digital publications at the National Library of the Netherlands(KB)since 2003.Until recently,most of these publications were deposited in the Portable Document Format.New projects,for example the Web archiving project,force the KB to handle more heterogeneous material.Therefore,the KB has developed a quantifiable file format risk assessment method.This method can be used to define digital preservation strategies for specific file formats.The choice for a specific file format at creation time or later in the life cycle of a digital object influences the long-term access to the digital object.The evaluation method contains seven sustainability criteria for file formats that are weighed for importance.There seems to be consensus on the sustainability criteria.However,as the weighing of these criteria is connected to an institutions policy,the KB wonders whether agreement on the relative importance of the criteria can be reached at all.With this paper,the KB hopes to inspire other cultural heritage institutions to define their own quantifiable file format evaluation method.
File formats assessment Long-term preservation Quantifiable file format evaluation
JUDITH ROG CAROLINE VAN WIJK
National Library of the Netherlands,The Hague,The Netherlands
国际会议
北京
英文
83-90
2007-10-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）