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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of
> Roy Tennant
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 3:49 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Just Solve the File Format Problem month: can
> you help?
> 
> Um...how is this better/different from already existing sites/efforts
> around this?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats
> http://www.wotsit.org/
> http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html
> http://www.fileformat.info/
> 
> At the very least, this new effort shouldn't start from scratch...
> Roy
> 
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > I imagine you've heard about the Just Solve the Problem month
> already,
> > but if not, I thought Chris Rusbridge's email to the
> > digital-preservation list was a good call for participation in the
> > project ...
> >
> > //Ed
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Chris Rusbridge <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:00 PM
> > Subject: Just Solve the File Format Problem month: can you help?
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Some of you will know that Jason Scott, Rogue Archivist, is raising
a
> > citizen's army to attempt to solve the "file format problem*" in the
> > month of November, 2012. The work is taking place via a wiki at
> > http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page, with a band of
> > volunteers (you need to register to make changes to the wiki, by
> > sending a username and email address to [log in to unmask]).
> I've
> > added a few formats and groups of formats myself (at least as
> > skeletons or empty placeholders).
> >
> > The best form of help is for some of you who know more about rarer
> > data formats to register and help by editing the wiki yourself. It's
> > pretty easy; I've never used MediaWiki before, and everything I've
> > done so far has been by finding something like it and adapting the
> > wiki source. Other people can make it beautiful and standardised
> later
> > on!
> >
> > If you can't do that, you could email me information about missing
> > data formats. This should include as much as possible of:
> >
> > - name, and what it's for (ie brief description)
> > - web site with some authoritative information
> > - web site with some examples, etc.
> >
> > Let's try and capture ALL these formats. As Jason says in his own
> > inimitable way "Let's make that goddam army!".
> >
> > * Note, the "problem" is only vaguely defined, and after some angst
> > (eg see http://unsustainableideas.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/the-
> solution-is-42-what-was-the-problem/),
> > I think that's OK. Gathering a huge amount of information about file
> > formats in one place will be a BIG HELP.
> >
> > --
> > Chris Rusbridge
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