Detailed knowledge of the internal properties of digital representation
formats is necessary to interpret properly the full information
content of otherwise opaque digital objects. These properties form
an important component of the representation information needed
by repository workfl ows regardless of local preservation strategy and
infrastructure decisions. The Digital Library Federation (DLF) has
sponsored preliminary investigations toward establishing a Global
Digital Format Registry (GDFR) that will function as a sustainable
utility for maintaining the bindings between public identifi ers for
digital formats and the signifi cant syntactic and semantic properties of
those formats. A sustainable GDFR should prove to be of great utility
to archives, libraries, digital repositories, and other organizations and
individuals interested in the long-term viability of digital assets. (From the article)
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/2447
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