%0 Conference Paper %B Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing %D 2007 %T File-Formats for Preservation: Evaluating the Long-Term Stability of File-Formats %A Rauch, Carl %A Krottmaier, Harald %A Tochtermann, Klaus %K Digital Preservation %K Evaluation Metric %K File-Formats %X

While some file-formats become unreadable after short periods, others remain interpretable over a long-term. Among the over 1.000 file-formats, some are better and some are less suited for long-term preservation. A standardized process for evaluating the stability of a file-format is described in this paper and its practical use is shown with file-formats for 3D-objects. Recommendations to users of 3D-applications are given in the last section of this article. Some of the results are used in PROBADO, a sophisticated search engine for non-traditional objects (such as 3D-documents, music etc.).

%B Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing %S ELPUB %C Vienna, Austria %P 101-106 %8 06/2007 %@ 978-3-85437-292-9 %G eng %9 normal paper %]

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