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Everything about File archiver
Utility software for combining files
A file archiver is utility software that combines files into a single archive file – or in less common cases, multiple files. A relatively simple implementation might include the content of each file plus its name. A more advanced implementation stores additional metadata, such as the timestamps, file attributes and access control information. An archiver might compress input file content to reduce the size of the resulting archive. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: File archiverA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Records managementThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The protein data bank: A computer-based archival file for macromolecular structuresCited 6,820 times
- Go sideways: LzipA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Comparison of file archiversA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The protein data bank: A computer-based archival file for macromolecular structures
The crystallographic information file (CIF): a new standard archive file for crystallography
The protein data bank: A computer-based archival file for macromolecular structures
Implementation of tertiary storage file system with partial migration mechanism on an 8 mm tape archiver and its performance evaluation
Implementation of tertiary storage file system with partial migration mechanism on an 8 mm tape archiver and its performance evaluation
đź“š Books worth reading
Records managementMina Marie Johnson · 1967
Implementing electronic document and record management systemsAzad Adam · 2007
Records and information managementWilliam Saffady · 2002- 📕Introduction to records managementSmith, Peter A., P. Smith · 1995
- 📕Tanẓīm al-wathāʼiqMuḥammad Ibrāhīm Sayyid · 1987
- 📕Preservation problems of electronic text and dataMichael William Day · 1989
- 📕Archival theory and machine readable recordsCatherine Aileen Bailey · 1988
Final reportElectronic Records Working Group · 1995
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