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Putting Parsimonious Preservation Into Practice - Tim Gollins
The document summarizes recent developments at The National Archives in the United Kingdom regarding digital preservation efforts. It discusses the large number of file formats they need to preserve, with the most common being MSG, DOC, XLS, and PDF files. It also notes their responsibility to ensure government records are preserved and accessible now and in the future.
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Putting Parsimonious Preservation Into Practice - Tim Gollins
- 1. For good. Forthe record. For good.
- 2. Putting Parsimonious Preservation intoPractice Recent Developments at The National Archives (UK) Tim Gollins Head Of Digital Preservation 21/11/2012
- 3. Our Public Task Our responsibility for the government record, its past and future, its use and re-use, authentic, available and accessible to all
- 4. How long didyou say this parchment would last? 4
- 5. The File formatLong Tail File Extension Count % msg 1225790 57.6 doc 437803 20.6 • Our own administrative records xls pdf 135573 82524 6.4 3.9 jpeg 58748 2.8 1,400,000 url 20701 1.0 xlsx 16777 0.8 docx 16765 0.8 1,200,000 htm 15616 0.7 txt 14199 0.7 ppt 12834 0.6 1,000,000 gif 11154 0.5 rtf 11046 0.5 tif 9293 0.4 Number of files 800,000 MBX 6044 0.3 png 4812 0.2 obr 4368 0.2 600,000 bmp 3286 0.2 zip 2499 0.1 html 2307 0.1 csv 2266 0.1 400,000 vsd 2088 0.1 DAT 1972 0.1 xml 1898 0.1 200,000 pptx 1700 0.1 0 wmz jpeg djvu eps dwg exe psd dll msg xlsx tmp obr DAT css log mno DTA MBX sql xls rtf zip csv VMBX mht ico mp3 xlsm bat pptx sgm htm ppt db js File Format 5
- 6. For the record.For good. For good. Questions?