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Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statement 2023-2024
Recommended Formats Statement identifies hierarchies of the physical and technical characteristics of creative formats, both analog and digital, which will best meet the needs of all concerned, maximizing the chances for survival and continued accessibility of creative content well into the future.
2023-2024 Recommended Formats Statement (HTML)
2023-2024 Recommended Formats Statement (PDF)
2023-2024 Summary of Digital Format Preferences (HTML)
Change log from 2022-2023 to 2023-2024 version (PDF)
Evaluation matrix template
This worksheet details how the Library of Congress determines if a format is "preferred" or "acceptable" based on both global/community criteria and local/institutional criteria. For more information, see Introduction.
Format evaluation template with sample data - 2023 with revisions (XLSX)
Previous version (for reference use only)
2022-2023 Recommended Formats Statement (PDF)
Change log from 2021-2022 to 2022-2023 version (PDF)
Format evaluation template with sample data - 2020-2022 (XLSX)
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Contacts for the Recommended Formats Statement
Sustainability of Digital Formats