Tag Archives: DCC

DCC discussions on image formats

Rich pickings in a couple of fascinating posts on the DCC Digital Curation Blog, in which Chris Rusbridge summarises recent discussions on the DCC-Associates email list about appropriate photo image file formats for preservation, specifically TIFF, RAW and JPEG 2000. A sibling post also discusses the merits of RAW versus TIFF from the perspective of [...]

Preservation Planning event

Planets and the DPC are hosting a joint event on preservation planning on July 29th at the British Library. The day looks to be a useful and interesting one for anyone who has struggled with aspects of long-term planning in digital preservation – which means just about all of us in the field, I suspect. [...]

DRAMBORA at ULCC

A DRAMBORA workshop took place at ULCC yesterday. DRAMBORA (http://www.repositoryaudit.eu/) was developed jointly by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE). DRAMBORA stands for Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment and according to their website it ‘represents the main intellectual outcome of a period of pilot repository audits undertaken by the DCC [...]

KB file format guides

I was pleased the DCC news feed alerted me to a new publication by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Alternative File Formats for Storing Master Images of Digitisation Projects. Particularly as on the KB publications page are also links to two other recent reports Evaluating File Formats for Long-term Preservation and Recommendations for the creation of PDF [...]

3rd International Digital Curation Conference

I’m writing this shortly after realising that I left it too late to book a place at the 3rd International Digital Curation Conference in Washington DC. The two previous events, in Bath and Glasgow, were excellent in every respect: well organised, a diverse range of papers from a variety of perspectives, and stimulating discussion. I [...]