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digital-preservation

NARA digital preservation file format risk analysis and preservation plans

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NARA digital preservation file format risk analysis and preservation plans

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Types of data are grouped by category, which have their own documents with recommended file encodings (including compression). For example the document for digital audio[0] has FLAC as a "preferred" format and MP3 as "acceptable". I didn't see any discussion of selecting formats based on recovery of original data from corrupted storage, and given the context I doubt that was given much consideration. When doing data archival it's better to have replication and checksums, then if any file is corrupt it's recovered from replica rather than trying to do a partial recovery. [0] https://github.com/usnationalarchives/digital-preservation/b...
In The US National Archives’ preservation plans for 600 file formats

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