I've recently had a need to find identifiers for programming conventions
and syntax standards (e.g. regex, xpath). That seems more granular than
the data the UDFR is dealing with, but I wonder if there are any other
registries or collections that cover this sort of data. DBpedia is OK, but
it doesn't get at different versions or implementations. Just curious...
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Stephen Abrams stephen.abr...@ucop.eduwrote:
The University of California Curation Center (UC3) is pleased to announce
the availability of the Unified Digital Format Registry (UDFR).
http://udfr.org/
The goal of the UDFR project is to unify the function and data holdings
of PRONOM and GDFR into a new semantically-enabled, community-supported,
open source registry of format representation information. The initial
UDFR data were imported from the IANA MIME type registry and PRONOM, and
include information about:
* 846 file formats
* 28 character encodings
* 17 compression algorithms
* 1,198 MIME types
* 548 external signatures (file extensions)
* 494 internal signatures (magic numbers)
* 268 software packages
* 156 agents
The UDFR is based on the OntoWiki semantic wiki platform and the Virtuoso
RDF quadstore. A user's guide to the UDFR, including an introductory
Getting Started section, is available at http://udfr.org/docs. Use of
the UDFR is open to the public, although contribution of new, or editing of
existing, data requires prior self-service account registration.
Development of the UDFR was generously supported by the Library of
Congress as part of its National Digital Information Infrastructure
Preservation Program (NDIIPP). More information about the UDFR project is
available at http://udfr.org/project. A mailing list,
udf...@listserv.ucop.edumailto:udf...@listserv.ucop.edu, is available
for comments and discussion. To subscribe, follow the instructions at
http://udfr.org/docs.
--sla
Stephen Abrams
Associate Director, UC Curation Center
California Digital Library
University of California, Office of the President
stephen.abr...@ucop.edumailto:stephen.abr...@ucop.edu
+1 510-987-0370
On behalf of the UDFR project team
--
Andrew Ashton
Director of Digital Technologies
Brown University Library
