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Title
LARGE-SCALE COLLECTIONS UNDER THE MAGNIFYING GLASS: FORMAT IDENTIFICATION FOR
Subtitle (en)
Poster - iPres 2010 - Vienna
Language
English
Description (en)
Institutions that perform web crawls in order to gather heritage collections have millions – or even billions – of files encoded in thousands of different formats about which they barely know anything. Many of these heritage institutions are members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium, whose Preservation Working Group decided to address the issues related to format identification in web archive. Its first goal is to design an overview of the formats to be found in different types of collections (large-, smallscale…) over time. It shows that the web seems to be becoming a more standardized space. A small number of formats – frequently open – cover from 90 to 95% of web archive collections, and we can reasonably hope to find preservation strategies for them. However, this survey is mainly built on a source – the MIME type of the file sent in the server response – that gives good statistical trends but is not fully reliable for every file. This is the reason why it appears necessary to study how to use, for web archives, identification tools developed for other kinds of digital assets.
Keywords (en)
iPRES, Vienna
Author of the digital object
Clément  Oury
Format
application/pdf
Size
103.9 kB
Licence Selected
CC BY-SA 2.0 AT
Conferences
Conference 2010
Type of publication
Article in collected edition
Content
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Object type
PDFDocument
Format
application/pdf
Created
20.11.2012 11:08:05
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