Chapters
The chapters in Files that Last:
- For the preservation geek
- The dustbin of history
- Preservation strategy
- Backup and archiving
- Internet backup and archiving
- Cooperative archiving
- Archiving your life
- Storage media
- Resurrecting disks and files
- Internet risks
- The perils of DRM
- Using metadata
- Understanding formats
- Text files
- Archival files
- XML files
- HTML and XHTML files
- PDF files
- Still image files
- OpenDocument files
- Microsoft Office files
- E-books
- Audio files
- Video files
- Dataliths and digital archeology
- Appendix 1: XMP example
- Appendix 2: ID3 frames
- Appendix 3: An introduction to ExifTool
- Appendix 4: A guide to JHOVE
- Appendix 5: Songs of formats and preservation