Wikidata:WikiProject Informatics/Structures/File formats/Comparison of PRONOM and Wikidata properties
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What is PRONOM?[edit]
PRONOM is a web-based technical registry to support digital preservation services, developed by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.
What Properties does PRONOM use?[edit]
Let's take a look at how PRONOM describes the Tagged Image File Format
Summary Table[edit]
PRONOM attribute | Example | Wikidata |
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Name | Tagged Image File Format | English label for item TIFF (Q215106) |
Version | N/A | software version identifier (P348) |
Other names | TIFF | alias for label (Also known as) |
Identifiers | PUID: fmt/353 | PRONOM file format ID (P2748) |
Family | N/A | Wikidata describes these relationships using class/ subclass relationships |
Classification | Image (Raster) | multiple ways to express this |
Disclosure | Full (level of public disclosure provided for format specification) | Property needs to be created |
Description | The Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) is a raster image format originally developed by the Aldus Corporation, primarily for use in scanning and desktop publishing... | Wikidata also has a description field |
Orientation | N/A | Property needs to be created |
Byte order | Little-endian (Intel) and Big-endian (Motorola) | Property needs to be created |
Related file formats | Has lower priority than Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed) (2.2)... | Wikidata would need to express these relationships using specific properties |
Technical Environment | N/A | |
Released | 01 Aug 1986 | publication date (P577) |
Supported until | N/A | Property needs to be created, there are other ways of expressing this in Wikidata |
Format Risk | N/A | Property needs to be created |
Developed by | N/A | developer (P178) |
Supported by | N/A | Property needs to be created |
Source | Example | Wikidata uses references to source claims |
Source description | N/A | This pertains to TNA process |
Last updated | 07 Jul 2011 | This would be expressed as a qualifier to a reference |
Signatures Table[edit]
PRONOM attribute | Example | Wikidata |
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External signatures | File extension: tiff | file extension (P1195) |
Name | TIFF generic | English label for item TIFF (Q215106) |
Description | Header: II* 0x00 | Property needs to be created |
Byte sequence position type | Absolute from BOF | Property needs to be created |
Byte sequence offset | 0 | Property needs to be created |
Byte sequence byte order | N/A | Property needs to be created |
Byte sequence value | 49492A00 | Property needs to be created |