Browse Linked Open Data for File Formats

The Digital Preservation Framework as Linked Open Data includes the same elements as are available in the version of the Preservation Plans on GitHub. There are hundreds of formats, which include the following data:

• Categories of electronic records associated with the format
• Specifications, standards, and documentation where possible; some have no specification or standard available
• Proposed preservation migration actions to be taken by NARA, including no action when appropriate
• Recommended tools for processing and preservation actions

These Plans are not exhaustive nor universally applicable proposed actions and recommended or endorsed tools: these represent file formats and variant versions in NARA holdings, the current NARA risk assessment, processing capabilities, and tools in use at NARA.

NARA makes its Linked Open Data available in the Resource Description Framework Terse RDF Triple Language, or RDF Turtle (.ttl files). These files can be opened in any text editor.