Digital curation: strategies

Refreshing, migration, normalisation and emulation 
(as defined via these links in the Paradigm Workbook on Digital Private Papers).
See guidance for file format conversion of The National Archives (UK),

File Formats for preservation

Selecting File Formats for Preservation, from the Paradigm Workbook on Digital Private Papers

Obsolescence: File Formats and Software, part of the Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-Term Strategies for Long-Term Solutions, online tutorial developed for the Digital Preservation Management workshop, developed and maintained by Cornell University Library, 2003-2006; extended and maintained by ICPSR, 2007-2012; and now extended and maintained by MIT Libraries, 2012-on.

Recommendations on file formats for long term preservation, made by the UK Data Archive

Todd, M (2009). File formats for preservation from the Digital Preservation Coalition Technology Watch Report Series

File profiling tool:

File Format Identification of Community Owned Digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR)

DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)  which was developed by The National Archives (UK).