Hoping to improve its ability to preserve and catalog the burgeoning amount of material on 0digital media, the Library of Congress has announced eight partnerships with organizations to establish digital format standards for photos, films, music and video games.

Despite the swell in materials being produced digitally in Hollywood and in the recording and news industries, sufficient standardization for the production or post-production of new digital materials is still lacking, according to library. And without standards regarding metadata -- information about the characteristics of a piece of work -- for the digital documents library, officials say it will be more difficult to care for and chronicle the digital works.

The new project, the Preserving Creative America initiative, part of the library’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, is an opportunity for industry and libraries to develop the needed standards cooperatively, said Elizabeth Dulabahn, the project’s manager...

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