Abstract:
Cooperation has always been essential in the digital preservation
community regarding knowledge exchange and collaboration in research
activities. As initiatives increasingly turn to implementation,
cooperation also gains practical significance. Initiatives embark on
collaboratively building services that are required by various
preservation systems.
This presentation addresses file format registries. The preservation
community jointly calls for a register that identifies and documents file
formats, to come to terms with the myriad of different file formats.
Activities towards building a file format registry are emerging, as
already some preservation initiatives rely on such a future service in
their current approaches.