Presentations and publications

2016

Messes and Meanings

Part of Re: Format – What is file format obsolescence and does it really exist?, a Digital Preservation Coalition webinar

Sheila Morrissey

Description

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Tagged: file formats , reproducibility of research , tools

2015

The Future of Archives

NERCOMP Conference

Amy Kirchhoff

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Tagged: complex content , file formats , Portico , reproducibility of research , sustainability , tools

2014

Digital Preservation Coalition Technology Watch Report: Preserving eBooks

Digital Preservation Coalition

Amy Kirchhoff and Sheila Morrissey

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Tagged: e-books , file formats , standards , tools

2014

The Benefits and Risks of the PDF/A-e File Format for Archival Institutions: An NDSA Report

Library of Congress

Caroline Arms, Don Chalfant, Kevin DeVorsey, Chris Dietrich (National Park Service), Carl Fleischhauer, Butch Lazorchak, Sheila Morrissey (ITHAKA/Portico), and Kate Murray

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Tagged: file formats , standards , tools

2013

How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance? Intention and the Preservation of Digital Objects

The New Review of Information Networking, Volume 19, Issue 1

Sheila M. Morrissey

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Tagged: complex content , file formats , reproducibility of research , text and data mining , tools

2013

A Perspective on PDF/A-3 from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance

PDF Association Technical Conference North America

Sheila M. Morrissey on behalf of the NDSA PDF/A-3 Standards Subcommittee

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Tagged: file formats , standards , tools

2012

Migration at Scale: A Case Study

iPRES

Sheila M. Morrissey, Vinay Cheruku, John Meyer, Matthew Stoeffler, William Howard, and Suresh Kadirvel

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Tagged: file formats , standards , sustainability , tools , XML

2012

Beyond Well-Formed and Valid: QA for XML Configuration Files

Balisage 2012 International Symposium on Quality Assurance and Quality Control in XML

Sheila M. Morrissey, John Meyer, Sushil Bhattarai, Gautham Kalwala, Sachin Kurdikar, Jie Ling, Matt Stoeffler, and Umadevi Thanneeru

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Tagged: file formats , tools , XML

2012

The Network is the Format: PDF and the Long-term Use of Digital Content

IS&T Archiving 2012

Sheila M. Morrissey

Reprinted with permission of IS&T: The Society for Imaging Science and Technology sole copyright owners of IS&T’s Archiving 2012

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Tagged: file formats , standards , tools

2012

File Format Considerations in the Preservation of E-books

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

Sheila M. Morrissey

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Tagged: e-books , file formats , standards

2009

“What? So What": The Next-Generation JHOVE2 Architecture for Format-Aware Characterization

The International Journal of Digital Curation 4, no. 33

Stephen Abrams, Sheila Morrissey, and Tom Cramer

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Tagged: file formats , tools

2008

Long-Term Preservation and Standards: An Uneasy Alliance

NISO Digital Preservation Forum

Evan Owens

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Tagged: file formats , Portico , standards

2006

Online Journal Publishing Best Practices: From Production to Preservation

Allen Press Editorial Seminar

Evan Owens

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Tagged: file formats , Portico , standards , XML

2006

Automated Workflow for the Ingest and Preservation of Electronic Journals

Archiving 2006

Evan Owens

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Tagged: file formats , Portico , standards , XML

2005

A Format-Registry-Based Automated Workflow for the Ingest and Preservation of Electronic Journals

Digital Library Federation Fall Forum

Evan Owens

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Tagged: file formats , Portico , standards , XML