Emerging Formats
Emerging Formats
Emerging Formats
Emerging Formats started as a project in 2017, when the British Library, together with the other five UK Legal Deposit Libraries, began investigating the rise of new complex digital publications that could pose new challenges for libraries and other cultural institutions in terms of collection and preservation. These 'emerging formats' are born-digital publications with no print counterpart, often consisting of multiple media types, with strong hardware and software dependencies and thus at high risk of obsolescence. The collection has grown through the years to include examples of eBook mobile apps, web-based interactive narratives and the various contextual information and documentation that surrounds these publications. In 2023, the Digital Storytelling exhibition opened at the British Library to showcase and celebrate many of the emerging formats publications collected by the Library.
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Item type:Journal article, User-centred collecting for emerging formats(2024-08-12) ;Rossi, Giulia Carla ;Cooke, Ian ;Clark, Lynda ;Pyke, TeganSmith Nicholls, FlorenceSince 2013, the UK legal deposit libraries have worked collaboratively to develop systems to manage born-digital publications, including a more experimental approach to content management for emerging formats. Within the content management lifecycle, access was identified as a key challenge. This paper provides an overview of the work conducted at legal deposit libraries to better understand access requirements for emerging formats, from a user's perspective and with a focus on web-based interactive narratives. It includes background information on UK non-print legal deposit and the characteristics that distinguish emerging formats from other collection items. It explores the findings from different workshops discussing user's needs and expectations when accessing born-digital collections in a library environment. It also considers how existing tools and methodologies, such as web archiving, can be adapted and built to support the collection of emerging formats. Finally, it delves into different research projects conducted at the British Library around archiving and performing quality assurance for interactive narratives, collecting contextual information, and lessons learnt from exhibiting born-digital content in a physical space.2
