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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 > Mobile: +44 791 7423828 > Email: [log in to unmask] > Adopt the email charter! http://emailcharter.org/