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2014
Conference paper (published)
Sustainability assessments at the British Library: Formats, frameworks and findings
File format assessments have been the subject of much debate in and outside of the preservation community in the past decade. Recognizing the unique structural, operational, and collecting context of the British Library, the Library’s digital preservation team recently initiated new format assessment work to deliver recommendations on which file...Pennock, Maureen ; Wheatley, Paul ; May, Peter
file formats, British Library, assessments, transparency, sustainability, and preservation master
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2016
Conference paper (published)
The Flashback Project: Rescuing disk-based content from the 1980s to the present day
This paper introduces the British Library's Flashback project, a proof-of-concept that explored the practical challenges of preserving digital content stored on physical media (magnetic and optical disks) using a sample of content from hybrid collection items dating from between 1980 and 2010. It describes some of the activities undertaken by...Pennock, Maureen ; May, Peter ; Day, Michael ; Davies, Kevin ; Whibley, Simon …
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2019
Conference paper (published)
Considerations on the acquisition and preservation of ebook mobile apps
In 2018 and 2019, as part of the UK Legal Deposit Libraries’ sponsored ‘Emerging Formats’ project, the British Library’s digital preservation team undertook a program of research into the preservation of new forms of content. One of these content types was eBooks published as Mobile Apps. Research considered a relatively...Pennock, Maureen ; May, Peter ; Day, Michael
access, mobile apps, acquisition, digital preservation, and preservation
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2016
Conference paper (published)
Practical analysis of TIFF file size reductions achievable through compression
This paper presents results of a practical analysis into the effects of three main lossless TIFF compression algorithms – LZW, ZIP and Group 4 – on the storage requirements for a small set of digitized materials. In particular we are interested in understanding which algorithm achieves a greater reduction in...May, Peter ; Davies, Kevin
LZW, Group 4, LibTiff, TIFF, ZIP, compression, and ImageMagick
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2013
Conference paper (published)
An analysis of contemporary JPEG2000 codecs for image format migration
This paper presents results of an analysis of different implementations of the JPEG2000 standard, specifically part 1: JP2, an image format that is currently popular within the digital preservation community. In particular we are interested in the effect different JPEG2000 codecs (encoders and decoders) have on image quality in response...Palmer, William ; May, Peter ; Cliff, Peter
TIFF, image quality, generational loss, JPEG2000, migration, codec, and PSNR
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2013
Conference paper (published)
Quality assured image file format migration in large digital object repositories
This article gives an overview on how different components developed by the SCAPE project are intended to be used in composite file format migration workflows; it will explain how the SCAPE platform can be employed to make sure that the workflows can be used to migrate very large image collections...Schlarb, Sven ; Cliff, Peter ; May, Peter ; Palmer, William ; Hahn, Matthias …
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2019
Conference paper (published)
The Integrated Preservation Suite: Scaled and automated preservation planning for highly diverse digital collections (long paper)
The Integrated Preservation Suite is an internally funded project at the British Library to develop and enhance the Library's preservation planning capabilities, largely focussed on automation and addressing the Library's heterogeneous collections. Through agile development practices, the project is iteratively designing and implementing the technical infrastructure for the suite as...May, Peter ; Pennock, Maureen ; Russo, David
software preservation, knowledge base, preservation watch, and preservation planning