Different File Formats used in Digital Preservation

Digitization is the process where information contained in analogues items like images, text, audio and video are captured and converted into a digital format. In this format information is organized into discrete units of data called bits that can be separately addressed as byte which is a multiple bit group called bytes) Every type of information is represented in digital form. Digital information can be saved on any medium that is able to represent the binary digits (bits) 0 and 1. The meaningful sequence of bits with no intervening spaces, punctuation or formatting is called as bit stream. A file is nothing more than a sequence of bits and the file format is interpreting the bit stream (Barve, S 2007). Digital information is produced in a variety of standard and proprietary formats like ASCII, Common image formats, word processing, spreadsheets, database documents, formulae, charts, multimedia files, sound and video. (Ramareddy), (Angadi, M 2004). A defined arrangement for discrete sets of data that allow a computer and software to interpret the data is called a file format. A file format is a specific format in which a file is saved (Prasad, A. R. D). Padmavati S Tubachi"Different File Formats used in Digital Preservation" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-5 , August 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd15834.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/social-science/15834/different-file-formats-used-in-digital-preservation/padmavati-s-tubachi