OPF foresees a potential market in commercial industry once awareness and subsequently compliance on long-term access become reality. This will have immediate impact on policies,...
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Content is King. The key to a good file format registry is not software; it’s not user interface; it’s not governance. The key is content,...
I’ve just started a small assignment for the OPF to investigate the options for a new file format registry, part of the toolbox needed for...
Fido is a simple format identification tool for digital objects that uses Pronom signatures. It converts signatures into regular expressions and applies them directly. Fido...
A couple of people have asked me if my experiments with Pronom and Fido would have been easier if Pronom had been available as RDF...
Last time, I discussed Pronom and Droid. We had a quick look at the compiled (nearly unreadable) pattern information that the Droid signature file holds...