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Goal:
provide information to help LC staff develop strategies
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and
practices for incoming content
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Begin
by identifying preferred formats – a continuing
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process
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Later,
move to appropriate actions with non-preferred
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Project
includes media-independent formats ("intangible"),
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e.g.,
MP3 files
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Project
excludes media-dependent formats ("tangible"), e.g.,
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audio
CDs, DVDs
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Synergy
with the proposed Global Digital Format Registry
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Initial
analysis focuses on four “easy” categories: still
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images,
audio, video, and text. Draft
documents reviewed
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by a
small group of LC and outside readers.
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Additional
format categories as the work proceeds
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