Contract Opportunity - File Format Analysis and Preservation Planning for Born Digital Collecti[...]
Company: Digital Preservation Coalition
Location: Washington
Posted on: June 2, 2025
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Job Description:
Contract Opportunity - File Format Analysis and Preservation
Planning for Born Digital Collections at Library of Congress25
April 2022Digital Collections Management and Services requires
contract support to analyze the technical characteristics of
complex heterogeneous eBook and eJournal content accessible in the
Library of Congress' (LOC/ Library) onsite access platform Stacks
to inform preservation planning. This content is published, born
digital material acquired from a wide range of publishers through
the Cataloging in Publication Program (CIP), and Copyright Deposit
through the U.S. Copyright Office.The contractor shall analyze the
technical characteristics of complex heterogeneous eBook and
eJournal content accessible in the Library's onsite access platform
Stacks to inform preservation planning. Using specialized tools
such as Apache Tika, this research helps understand the structure
and composition of over 50,000 ePub files, 100,000 PDF files, and a
small number of XML/ONIX for Books, JATS and HTML files. Many of
these sets of files contain embedded data such as audio, video and
other interactive features that are not fully transparent. This
research will inform action plans for access and preservation.The
deliverables from the project shall include:
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