Preservation

• Wikipedia: Optical media preservation
• Library Of Congress: Preservation
• https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
• Recommended Formats Statement: Audio
• RIFFPad
• FourCC
• AVI vs OpenDML (discussion)
• Wave file specification
• FLAC FAQ
• Wikipedia: Sony BMG Copy protection
• Hydrogenaudio: EMI Copy Protection

References

• Smithsonian Institution Archives

Tools

• Virtualdub
• JHOVE (Open source file format identification, validation & characterisation)
• Vera (PDF/A validator)
• Media Preservation Frontend (MPF)
• Freac
• BitCurator
• CCA diskimageprocessor
• DROID: preserving digital records

Other

• Image and Rip Optical Media Like A Boss!

Tools

• Digital preservation tools and systems (national archives uk)
• Community Owned Digital Preservation tool registry: COPTR
• https://coptr.digipres.org/index.php/MediaConch