NOT WELL-FORMED OR INVALID. NOW WHAT?: Towards a formalized workflow for format validation error treatment

Lindlar, Micky

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Title

NOT WELL-FORMED OR INVALID. NOW WHAT?: Towards a formalized workflow for format validation error treatment

Author(s)

Lindlar, Micky

Issue Date

2023

Keyword(s)

• file format validation
• process formalization
• error handling

Abstract

File format validation – we all use it and we all run into problems when files do not validate. Though a core process within digital preservation practice, little progress has been made in shared documentation and discussion of processes used to treat file format validation errors. This paper aims to close that gap. A basic workflow for handling validation errors is proposed and visualized, and in a second step tested against two TIFF and two PDF validation errors of varying severity. Observations made are fed back into the workflow diagram. The outcome shall provide a first step towards shared digital preservation practice in the currently largely neglected field of method formalization for file format validation error treatment.

Series/Report Name or Number

IPRES 2023

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Copyright held by the author(s). The text of this paper is published under a CC BY-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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