The Sustainable Digital Formats Web site provides information about digital content formats. It is intended to support strategic planning that will ensure the long-term preservation of digital content by the Library of Congress. It provides an inventory of information about current and emerging formats, including the identification of the documentation that is needed to support the long-term management of content created or received in these formats. It identifies and describes the formats that are promising for long-term sustainability.
Important pages:
- Introduction: Formats, Evaluation Factors, and Relationships
- About specific categories: Still Image | Sound | Textual | Moving Image | Web Archive | Generic
- Menu for specific format descriptions drafted to date
Last Updated: 09/29/2008