Genealogy document preservation

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Genealogy document preservation

Legg inn av Steve Hayes » 06 des 2004 03:31:57

For those concerned with preservation of digital documents
(including family history data files), the following, from
"Computers in Genealogy", may be of interest.

To help inform our long-term preservation decisions we have
developed the PRONOM file formal registry. PRONOM is a web-
based tool that provides guidance on the technical
dependencies upon which access to electronic records may
rely. It contains information about the file formats in
which electronic records may be stored, the software
produces required to reate, render and migrate those
formats, and the vendors weho develop those products. PRONOM
was launched on the Web in February 204, and is freely
available at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom. The PRONOM
database can be searched online, and we expect that it will
provide a valuable resource not only for archives and
libraries, but for anyone who has collections of computer
records to preserve. We plan to use PRONOM to support the
migration of electronic records from obsolete to current
formats (Brown 2004:311).

I haven't checked to see if they have GEDCOM registered, but it
may be useful for files written with the Electric Pencil and
other obsolete word processors.

Bibliography
Brown, Adrian. 2004. A national digital archive, in _Computers
in Genealogy_ 8(6). September.


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