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• Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles

  Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerprints of emerging types of institutional repositories.

• Video Streaming of Events

  Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event.

• Digitising an Archive: The Factory Approach

  Duncan Burbidge describes a new approach to digitising an archive both as a future-proof substitute and for Web delivery.

• Managing Digital Video Content

  Manjula Patel reviews the two-day workshop on current and emerging standards for managing digital video content held in Atlanta, Georgia, 15-16 August 2001.