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Advice 13: VERS Long Term Preservation Formats

Table of Contents

1   Introduction

2   Background
   2.1   Preservation strategy
   2.2   Cost minimisation strategy

3   Version History
   2.1   Changes between Version 1 and Version 2
   2.1   Changes between Version 2 and Version 2.1

4   Compliance

5   Use of Encryption/Passwords/Copy Protection

6   Selection of Long Term Preservation Formats
   6.1   What characteristics should be preserved?
   6.2   Re-implementing rendering software
      6.2.1   Simple formats
      6.2.2   Published formats
   6.3   Industry standard formats

7   Standard Long Term Preservation Formats
   7.1   Text
   7.2   PDF (Portable Document Format)
   7.3   TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
   7.3   JPEG
   7.3   JPEG-2000
   7.3   MPEG-4

8   References

Under section 12 of the Public Records Act 1973, the Keeper of Public Records is responsible for the establishment of standards for the efficient management of public records and for assisting public offices to apply those standards to records under their control. Officers in charge of public offices are responsible under section 13 of the Act for carrying out, with the advice and assistance of the Keeper, a program of records management in accordance with the standards established under section 12 of the Act.

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