***Apologies for cross posting***
Colleagues,
Those of you involved in digital preservation work may be interested in the following news:
The National Archives' award-winning PRONOM service, an online registry of file formats which is crucial to digital preservation, has been able to significantly expand its database thanks to a successful partnership with Georgia Tech Research Institute and The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in the United States.
The research work done by the Georgia Tech Research Institute, at the request of The National Archives Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies (NCAST), a department of NARA, has increased the number of internal signatures in the PRONOM database by almost a quarter. The ongoing collaboration with The National Archives in the UK means that over 50 signatures have been added to the database this month, with more expected next year.
For full details, please click on the link below
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/519.htm
We would also like to take this opportunity to encourage further collaboration with interested parties in order to enhance and improve the file format coverage of our PRONOM and DROID services. Please do not hesitate to contact us if there are particular file formats you would like to see in PRONOM, or if you have any file signatures you would like to submit to the registry.
Best wishes
Andrew Fetherston
Digital Archivist
Tel: +44 (0)20 8876 3444 (x2764)
The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
National Archives Disclaimer
This email message (and attachments) may contain information that is confidential to The National Archives. If you are not the intended recipient you cannot use, distribute or copy the message
or attachments. In such a case, please notify the sender by return email immediately and erase all copies of the message and attachments. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message
and attachments that do not relate to the official business of The National Archives are neither given nor endorsed by it.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To view the list archives go to: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK
To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the words UNSUBSCRIBE RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK
For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask]
For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]
|