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Seven Stories author & illustrator files

Added by Hannah Green · last edited by Paul Wheatley · on May 04, 2012 (view change)

Title	Seven Stories author & illustrator files
Description	Digital records in various file formats created by authors and illustrators in the process of writing/illustrating books. Incidental occurences in collections which are primarily paper-based, and usually saved onto floppy disc or CD-R by creators prior to deposit. Common file formats include Word, rich text, plaint text, pdf and photoshop files.
Licensing	Copyright in all material is retained by the creator, and is not licensed for reproduction or distribution.
Owner	Seven Stories, the Centre for Children's Books
Dataset Location	n/a
Collection Champion	Hannah Green
Issues brainstorm	material received through variety of media (floppy disc, CD-R, memory stick) & copied by creators problem of identifying file types - incorrect file extensions, eg period marks in file names interpreted as file extensions after copying identifying creating program/applications required to open files and access content maintaining integrity and authenticity of records, where there are problems of file identification auto update features in certain types of files, eg dates in Word files, leading to creation/modification log being changed when viewing content. Impact of integrity/authenticity of records?
List of Issues	Identification of file formats with incorrect file extensions