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=== [[File Assessment Strategy|Assessment Strategy]] ===
 
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The Digital Preservation Team at The British Library undertakes file format assessments to capture knowledge about the gaps in current best practice, understanding and capability in working with specific file formats. The focus of each assessment is on capturing evidence-based preservation risks and the implications of institutional obsolescence which lead to problems maintaining the content over time.
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=== Assessment Criteria ===
See the [[File Assessment Strategy | format assessment factors]] covered in each assessment.


=== Preservation Risk Assessments by Broad File Format Type ===
=== Preservation Risk Assessments ===
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Revision as of 11:34, 16 March 2015

FileFormatsMainBlue.jpg File formats are a means of structuring information in a sensible way for storage, retrieval and use. There are a wealth of different formats supporting a range of data types, from specific instances to container formats able to store different types of data.

The Digital Preservation Team at The British Library undertakes file format assessments to capture knowledge about the gaps in current best practice, understanding and capability in working with specific file formats. The focus of each assessment is on capturing evidence-based preservation risks and the implications of institutional obsolescence which lead to problems maintaining the content over time.

Assessment Criteria

See the format assessment factors covered in each assessment.

Preservation Risk Assessments

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