Back by popular demand, the PRONOM team will be running their yearly hackathon, PRONOM Research Week 2024, to mark World Digital Preservation Day. This year the hackathon will be the 7th November-15th November.

This is a week-long excuse to delve into the world of file formats alongside other digital preservation practitioners. Have a file format you can’t identify in your repository? This week could be the time to investigate with help from others around the globe.

We will be kicking off the week with a PRONOM Open Drop-In session on the 7th dedicated to answering your questions.

PRONOM Research week is not just about file format analysis and if you aren’t sure about looking inside file formats there are many ways to help out. From suggesting improvements to our documentation, to helping us create descriptions for many of the file formats in the database that don’t have one.