[jats-list] Library of Congress Recommended Formats: Call for Stakeholder Input

["Bausenbach, Ardie abau@xxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Library of Congress is pleased to announce the latest annual call for
input from stakeholders involved in the lifecycle of creative works for the
upcoming annual revision of the Recommended Formats
Statement<https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/>.  This is all the
more important this year, as the current version is the result of the most
careful and intensive revision of the RFS since it was first launched in 2014.
The changes made last year in developing the 'RFS 2.0' represent the Library's
understanding of the growing importance of the Statement not merely in its own
work, but to the broader community and its determination to ensure that it
meet the needs of all its stakeholders.
In its last revision which created this new RFS 2.0, the Library focused on
two key improvements.  The first was a restructuring of the Statement itself,
to represent developments in how works are created in our increasingly digital
world.  As a result, in this version of the RFS are included three new
categories of creative works: Musical Scores; GIS, Geospatial and Non-GIS
Cartographic; and Design and 3D.  Each category represents the remarkable and
unique ways in which creation is happening of all three types of works.  The
second was the creation of a file format evaluation matrix.  This tool
provides our in-house experts a structured way to manage their review of
digital file formats as part of the annual revision process of the RFS; and it
offers external users of the Recommended Formats transparency in how the
Library evaluates digital file formats in the RFS hierarchies.
In addition to hearing back from you about how the latest version of the RFS
is working and what might be improved, the Library wants to know more about
specific aspects of interest and use to particular groups of users.  For
example, what does the independent game development community consider to be
the master, or archival, version of the software that they have created?  How
might the RFS be revised in order to better meet the needs of your particular
community?
The Library of Congress is encouraged by the value its partners and
stakeholders around the world have found in the Recommended Formats Statement.
We look forward to hearing your
thoughts<https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/contacts.html> by
March 31 as we prepare for the upcoming revision of the Statement this summer,
due out on June 30.

Ardie Bausenbach
Library of Congress, ILS Program Office
Washington, DC 20540
abau@xxxxxxx<mailto:abau@xxxxxxx>