Linked Open Data for Presentation and Publishing Formats

Presentation and publishing formats include a variety of files related to desktop publishing software used to create graphically rich documents, slide shows, magazines, books, brochures, newspapers and other more sophisticated texts. Besides formats associated with presentation and publishing files themselves, this category includes file formats associated with rendering files, such as printer control language and page description language files.

The significant properties of presentation and publishing records are documented in the Presentation and Publishing Preservation Plan, which can be used as test criteria for tools and processes used in format transformations. 

NARA makes its Linked Open Data available in Resource Description Framework Terse RDF Triple Language or RDF Turtle (.ttl files). These files can be opened in any text editor. The Digital Preservation Framework as Linked Open Data includes the same elements as are available in the version of the Preservation Plans on GitHub.

These plans are not exhaustive nor universally applicable proposed actions and recommended or endorsed tools: these represent file formats and variant versions in NARA holdings, the current NARA risk assessment, processing capabilities, and tools in use at NARA.