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Historical Risk Management of Digital Information : A File Format Investigation
Arms, Caroline R. In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Jun 2000) (United States of America)
This article is a review of the CLIR sponsored Cornell University Library study of the same name. The study concentrated on migration as a digital preservation strategy. There were seen to be three different categories of risk related to the infrastructure, file format and conversion process. Different methods and tools were applied to assess risk included workbooks, reader software and test migrations. It was found that risk could be quantified and access to the original file format specifications was crucial to evaluating risks.
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