Translations:Digitization, Preservation and Ingest/211/en

We first need to identify the format of our born-digital files, which we can do with the assistance of specialized software, such as “DROID” or “Siegfried,” that allows us to automatically identify the format of batches of our digital files. We will then proceed to change formats of the files for which we determine the need to be put into a different, preservation-appropriate format. Specialized software for conversion of files to different formats can be very useful in this process. Such software is format-specific (e.g., “Audio/Video to WAV Converter”) which converts audio and video files to WAV format, or “CDS Convert,” which allows conversion of documents, presentations, and images between different software formats.