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 <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> 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,
> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, 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
> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> +1 510-987-0370
>
> On behalf of the UDFR project team
>



-- 
Andrew Ashton
Director of Digital Technologies
Brown University Library