1. Keep Calm and Curate Easy steps to help you better manage your content and make it more useful Gareth Knight, Digital Curation Specialist gareth.knight@kcl.ac.uk Food for Thought. University of Cambridge 27th June 2011
2. DIGITAL LIFECYCLE We’ve created our research content It has taken a lot of time & effort I want to get maximum value from it How can I ensure that it doesn’t go to an early grave?
10. PHOTOGRAPH FORMATS Original photograph stored as TIFF 79712 colours JPEG, 85% compression Considerable detail loss GIF, 256 colours, colour banding on petals Open Office
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12. POTENTIAL FORMATS ASCII text, Unicode text ASCII/Unicode text Plain Text MPEG2, Quicktime, AVI ,etc. MPEG2 (as used on DVDs), JPEG 2000 in an MJPEG wrapper, MJPEG Video MP3, ASF AIFF, Microsoft Wave, FLAC (potentially) Audio JPEG, PNG TIFF, PNG, RAW Photos MySQL, MS Access, FileMaker Pro through appropriate front-end Comma Separated (CSV) or Tab-delimited text (tab), SQL Dump (possibly) Database PDF/A Open Document, Rich Text Format, MS DocX (possibly) Document Distribution copy Digital master