Digitalisierung, Langzeitarchivierung
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For the acquisition and management of electronic documents, the Saxon State Library – State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) developed the Saxon document and publication server Qucosa. During the implementation of the digital preservation solution, SLUB investigated pdf which is the prevailing data format for electronic publications. In this paper, first the pdf file format family is presented, then the problems which occurred when we were implementing a digital preservation workflow for pdf documents are described, and finally possible solutions to the problems are outlined. In the first part of the paper the pdf format family is presented and evaluated according to the criteria of a data format which can be digitally preserved. The problems with pdf-documents, tools for the validation of pdf-documents and validation results for a sample of the Qucosa text corpus are presented in the second part. In the third part organizational and technical approaches to solve the problems are described.