Archive Ingest and Handling Test
Michael L. Nelson, Johan Bollen, Giridhar Manepalli, Rabia Haq · D-Lib Magazine · 2005
The concept of format permeates all technical areas of digital repository architecture and operation.Proper interpretation of otherwise opaque content streams is dependent upon knowledge of how typed content is represented.The international digital library and archival communities have expressed their need for a sustainable, global registry of digital representation formats for the purpose of fulfilling their mission.The current MIME Media Types registry does not provide sufficient granularity of format typing or sufficient standardized representation information about formats.We present a summary of an ongoing international effort to establish a new global format registry, which will maintain persistent, unambiguous bindings between public identifiers for digital representation formats and the significant syntactic and semantic properties of those formats.