Posts by Nick Krabbenhoeft

Understanding File Formats

by Nick Krabbenhoeft, Head of Digital Preservation
May 2, 2017

Trying to come up with a list of all file formats is an endless, seemingly impossible, but ultimately necessary task for all of the staff that works with digital materials at NYPL. This series of posts will discuss how we in NYPL's Special Collections understand and use formats.

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