Re: ISSUE-27 (format): URIs for file formats [DCAT]

Thanks Dave, that looks very interesting. I'll dig deeper.

On 09/02/2012 17:39, Dave Reynolds wrote:
> On 09/02/12 17:10, Phil Archer wrote:
>> You are correct, Sarven, thank you. I have closed Issue-27.
>>
>> Right, now... how are we going to close Issue-12 ? :-)
>>
>
> One possibility *might* be to consider Pronom from The National Archive.
>
> Pronom [1] is an online registry of technical information about file
> formats, intended to support long term access to digital resources.
>
> There is a proposed vocabulary for rendering it as RDF [2] plus an
> experimental RDF version with SPARQL endpoint and Linked Data API, see
> [3]. The URIs themselves are not currently live (other than via the test
> LDA endpoint).
>
> You could use pronom:file-format as the range without any commitment to
> using the pronom instance URIs.
>
> If the pronom vocabulary meets the technical need but doesn't meet the
> requirements for stability then maybe the GLD could adopt it :)
>
> I could enquire about the status of the Pronom linked data work if that
> would be useful.
>
> Dave
>
> [1] http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM
> [2]
> http://test.linkeddatapronom.nationalarchives.gov.uk/vocabulary/pronom-vocabulary.htm
>
> [3]
> http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2011/01/linked-data-and-pronom/
>
>

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