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Global Digital Format Registry Progress

Global Digital Format Registry Progress. Andrea Goethals, Harvard University Library NDIIPP Digital Preservation Partners’ Meeting Arlington, VA July 9, 2008. Agenda. GDFR? History & Context Relationship to PRONOM Current state Upcoming plans Challenges ahead Questions. GDFR?. What?

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Global Digital Format Registry Progress

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  1. Global Digital Format Registry Progress Andrea Goethals, Harvard University Library NDIIPP Digital Preservation Partners’ Meeting Arlington, VA July 9, 2008

  2. Agenda • GDFR? • History & Context • Relationship to PRONOM • Current state • Upcoming plans • Challenges ahead • Questions

  3. GDFR? • What? • “Global Digital Format Registry” • A pooled body of information about digital formats • Both common and obscure formats • XML to Quake II 3D Model File • Information: • Format-specific • + associated “agents”, technologies, specifications, assessments • Why? • Reference for digital preservation activities

  4. GDFR History

  5. GDFR History in Context of PRONOM

  6. GDFR-PRONOM Relationship • Two different “format” registries • How many format registries does the digital preservation community need? • Depends on how different they are…

  7. GDFR-PRONOM core differences • Who governs the registry and makes policy, scope and enhancement decisions? • PRONOM: TNA • GDFR: community-based • Who adds and edits format information? • PRONOM: TNA (accepts requests) • GDFR: community-based • Where is the format information physically located? • PRONOM: at TNA • GDFR: replicated in different geographic locations Sufficient differences to continue with GDFR

  8. Current state

  9. GDFR Home website • It moved! • Old GDFR Home: http://www.formatregistry.org • New GDFR Home: http://www.gdfr.info • All existing GDFR docs migrated from the old GDFR Home website • Over the next month • Updated documentation! • Demo source node?

  10. Architecture • Currently: • One GDFR source node • Where all data additions and edits are performed • Many GDFR mirror nodes • Replicated data • Future? • Multiple GDFR source nodes? • Multiple interoperable format registry source nodes? • “Discoverable” from GDFR Home website • Each node has 2 Interfaces • For humans: user interface • For machines: web service interface

  11. GDFR source node • Housed by Harvard for now • http://www.formatregistry.org/registry • In test mode until August 1 – then will be publicly available in beta mode • Populated with test data- ~2000 formats from Magic database • Will need an authorized account to add/edit data

  12. GDFR mirror nodes • Test mirror nodes at OCLC and Harvard • Anyone will be able to run a mirror node • Software available for download August 1 from the GDFR Home website • Installation & configuration – half day • Can brand your mirror node

  13. User interface • Mirror node • Search, browse, read, export, manage node • Source node • Same as mirror node • Plus: add, edit • Sneak preview

  14. Upcoming plans • Tomorrow: pilot planning meeting • Pilot purposes • Create process for building the registry • Integrate GDFR with tools, repository software and workflows • Governance questions (headed by NARA)

  15. Challenges ahead • Resolving relationship to PRONOM • Quality or quantity? • Is there a large enough community of format contributors? • Do we need a simpler data entry interface? • Integrating tools and services • How to handle documentation • Preservation • Proprietary formats • Governance

  16. Questions?

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