We have a new venue! We'll be meeting at the Gondolier, http://www.gondolierboulder.com. The restaurant is in the Meadow's Shopping Center, on the southwest corner of Baseline and Foothills. We'll meet in their back room.
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This study examines file format risk under the new lens of ³file 'file format endangerment,² ' or the possibility that information stored in a particular file format will not be interpretable or renderable in human accessible means within a certain timeframe. Using the Delphi method in two separate studies, this exploratory research collected expert opinion on file format endangerment levels of 50 test file formats; and collected expert opinion on relevance of 28 factors as causal indicators of file format endangerment.
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The findings of this study have implications for further exploration of file format endangerment in specific digital information creation domains. In particular, applying this model to file formats created by and used in the Earth and Space Science communities will both strengthen the model and will produce valuable insight into format-centric Earth and Space Science data creation and management practices. This insight can then be applied to risk assessment and subsequent actions to support continued access to datasets over time.
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