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This is being sent to several listservs; please excuse the duplication. The Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives announces the availability of 35 descriptions of digital geospatial formats and two brief accompanying essays. This information is a new segment of the Library's Format Sustainability Web site (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/). This site provides information about digital content formats, emphasizing the aspects and features that are relevant for preservation planning. At this writing, the site provides information about 260 digital formats and subformats in the seven categories of still image, sound, textual, moving image, Web archive, datasets, and geospatial. Many additional formats remain to be described. Starting with materials developed by the National Geospatial Digital Archive (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/ngda/ngda.html), Nancy Hoebelheinrich (Knowledge Motifs LLC) and Natalie Munn (Content Innovations LLC) developed this new compilation of geospatial information during 2010 and 2011. The menu for the geospatial format descriptions is here: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/gis_fdd.shtml. The status is noted in each document: some are "full," some "partial," and some "preliminary." Meanwhile, the two brief essays are here: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/gis_quality.shtml and http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/gis_intro.shtml. Comments and suggestions are welcome: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/contact_format.shtml. ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-ALL list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-ALL&A=1