Understanding File Formats for Digital Preservation
This course is the first in a series that will give you the knowledge and skills needed to investigate, solve and even prevent file format-related digital preservation challenges. You will gain a deep understanding of file formats, how they encode data, how software interacts with them, and how to navigate their structures with various tools.
- URL
- https://www.preservetogether.com/course/understanding-file-formats
- Skills
- Roles
- Digital Preservation Archivist or Librarian Digital Preservation Officer Digital Preservation Trainee Information Studies Student Web Archivist Digital Preservation Developer
- Learning Objectives
- Explain how information is encoded in files
- Navigate a file in a hex editor tool
- Describe the structure of common file formats
- Understand how software is critical in decoding information
- Research sources of information about new file formats
- Enable you to undertake subsequent courses in this series
- Cost
- £200 (plus VAT if applicable)
- Language
- English
- Creators
- Paul Wheatley
- Provider
- Preserve Together
- Resource Type
- Online Training - Self Directed
- Open Access?
- No
- Series
- Yes, two additional course forthcoming (File Formats and Ingest and File Formats and Preservation)
- Record Created On
- 2025-09-19
- Record Last Modified On
- 2025-10-07
Page last modified on 2025-10-07 at 13:17. View on GitHub.
This Learning Resource is hosted and maintained by the Digital Preservation Coaltion and was originally developed as part of the Start to Preserve stream of iPRES 2024.
This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0
