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format obsolescence: a standalone construct

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Digital preservation

the risk that a digital file format becomes unreadable as software changes, which this author argues is overstated for widely used formats.

In digital preservation, format obsolescence refers to the risk that a digital file format becomes unreadable as software changes, which this author argues is overstated for widely used formats. This meaning comes from Rosenthal (2010) in Library Hi Tech.[1]

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Rosenthal, D. S. H. (2010). Format obsolescence: assessing the threat and the defenses. Library Hi Tech, 28(2), 195-210. https://doi.org/10.1108/07378831011047613

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