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FIAF

International Federation of Film Archives, an association of the world's leading film archives. http://www.fiafnet.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

FIAT

International Federation of Television Archives, a professional association for those engaged in the preservation and exploitation of broadcast archives. http://fiatifta.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

File Format

A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It tells the computer how to display, print, and process, and save the information. It is dictated by the application program which created the file, and the operating system under which it was created and stored. Some file formats are designed for very particular types of data, others can act as a container for different types. A particular file format is often indicated by a file name extension containing three or four letters that identify the format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Finding Aid

A type of Access Aid that allows a user to search for and identify Information Packages of interest.

FIWARE

Future Internet ware A middleware platform, driven by the European Union, for the development and global deployment of applications for Future Internet. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Fixity Check

a method for ensuring the integrity of a file and verifying it has not been altered or corrupted. During transfer, an archive may run a fixity check to ensure a transmitted file has not been altered en route. Within the archive, fixity checking is used to ensure that digital files have not been altered or corrupted. It is most often accomplished by computing checksums such as MD5, SHA1 or SHA256 for a file and comparing them to a stored value. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Fixity; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

FTP

File Transfer Protocol Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

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