Policy Statement
York University Library continuously monitors developments in the area of file formats to determine if/when formats preserved within the repository are in need of migration. This monitoring takes place through engagement in the digital preservation community, and through monitoring of blogs and mailing lists related to digital preservation.
A partial list of resources monitored includes, but is not limited to:
Mailing Lists
- ARCAN-L
- AAO List
- AMIA Listserv
- padiforum-l
- digipres-l
- DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
- PREMIS Implementors Group
- METS Mailing List
Blogs
- Ashley Blewer
- Documentary Heritage News
- DPC Technology Watch Publications
- Agogified - blog of Bill Lefurgy, digital preservationist at LoC
- Australian National Data Service blog
- ICPSR - Data Enclave in the Cloud
- ICPSR - Technology at ICPSR
- DSHR's Blog - David Rosenthal of Stanford/LOCKSS
- File Formats Blog - Gary McGath of Harvard/JHOVE
- Neil Beagrie's Blog - European digital preservation consultant
- Practical E-Records - Chris Prom of UIUC
- Ten Thousand Year Blog - David Mattison, Canadian archivist
Journals
- Ariadne
- D-Lib
- International Journal of Digital Curation
- International Journal on Digital Libraries
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
- Journal of Digital Information
- Journal of Electronic Publishing
- World Digital Libraries
Reviewed: March 21, 2022