User:YULdigitalpreservation/DraftProperties
Draft of LOCFDD property proposal
editLibrary of Congress Format Description Document ID
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Description | Library of Congress Format Description Document ID |
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Data type | External identifier |
Domain | file format (Q235557) |
Example | |
Source | http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/intro/intro.shtml |
Planned use | Link file formats in Wikidata to these file description documents with rich information related to rendering and preservation |
Formatter URL | http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/$1 |
Draft of Info URI scheme property proposal
editInfo URI scheme
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Description | Info URI scheme |
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Data type | External identifier |
Domain | namespace (Q873636) |
Example | |
Source | http://info-uri.info/registry/docs/misc/faq.html |
Planned use | This property would reference namespace descriptions from info-uri.info |
Formatter URL | http://info-uri.info/registry/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=reg&identifier=$1 |
Magic Numbers
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Description | magic numbers used to incorporate file format metadata |
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Represents | magic number (Q284099) |
Data type | String |
Allowed units | String |
Example | GIF (Q2192) -> 47 49 46 38 39 61 |
Source | Gary Kessler's File Signatures Table |
Planned use | I plan to add magic numbers to Wikidata items for the corresponding file formats. |
Draft of Info URI scheme property proposal
editEndianess
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Description | Endianess |
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Data type | String |
Domain | file format (Q235557) |
Allowed values | Big-endian, Little-endian, Middle-endian |
Example |
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Source | en:Endianness Endianness |
Planned use | This property would be applied to file format items to indicate byte order. |
==Emulates
Emulates hardware
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Description | Emulates |
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Data type | Item |
Domain | Informatics |
Allowed values | computer hardware |
Example | |
Planned use | I would like to use an 'Emulates hardware' property to describe the hardware that can be enabled for host systems. |
Social networks and archival context ID
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Description | identifier for items in the SNAC system |
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Data type | External identifier |
Domain | people, archives, libraries |
Example | |
Source | http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/snac/search, |
Planned use | I would like to add SNAC IDs to Wikidata items for people |
Formatter URL | http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/$1 |
emulated by
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Description | This property will indicate hardware that can be emulated by a piece of emulation software |
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Data type | Item |
Domain | informatics |
Example | |
Source | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_system_emulators |
Planned use | I would like to add information about what emulators are available for different hardware configurations |
swidtag ID
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Description | This property will refer to a url where the xml for a swid tag is located |
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Data type | External identifier |
Domain | informatics |
Example 1 | MISSING |
Example 2 | MISSING |
Example 3 | MISSING |
Source | List of computer system emulators |
Planned use | I would like to add swidtags to the items for the corresponding version of a piece of software |
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installable binary available at URL
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Description | This property will indicate the URL for an installable binary of a software application |
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Data type | URL |
Domain | software (Q7397) |
Example | |
Planned use | I would like to add information about where the installable binary for a software application can be located. |
See also | source code repository URL (P1324) |
- Motivation
In order to provide Emulation as a Service, it would be useful to point to URLs at which installable binaries can be found. I would like to include two qualifiers that could with this property: 1) software package format 2) package structure.
- Discussion
uses software
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Description | This property will indicate software used in a research study as mentioned in a scientific article |
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Represents | scholarly communication (Q7432048) |
Data type | Item |
Domain | software (Q7397) |
Example | |
Planned use | I would like to add this property to scientific articles if the authors state the software used in the study somewhere in the text of the article. |
- Motivation
Creating relationships between the items for scientific articles and items for software will allow us to present more structured data about scientific publications.
- Discussion
extension of
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Description | a piece of software or a file format can be extended through the addition of code |
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Represents | software (Q7397) |
Data type | Item |
Domain | software, file formats |
Allowed values | instances of software, instances of file format |
Example |
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Planned use | I would like to be able to represent extension |
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WeChangEd ID
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Description | an item in the WeChangEd database |
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Represents | software (Q7397) |
Data type | External identifier |
Domain | mostly people, some organizations, some periodicals |
Example | |
Source | A program of research at the University of Ghent https://www.wechanged.ugent.be/ |
Planned use | Adding these external ids |
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Motivation and Talk
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TODO
edit- topicArea/ description/ example
- supports / This property would describe formats supported by software / Amarok supports FLAC
- Endianness/ This property would describe the order of the bytes comprising a digital word in computer memory. It also describes the order of byte transmission over a digital link. Words may be represented in big-endian or little-endian format / Q217570 byte order described in PRONOM
- compression type / This property would describe how compression is achieved, ex naming the compression algorithm/ fmt/3 PRONOM LZW compression
- UTI / This property would reference external IDs from Apple's uniform type identifier vocabulary / this exists as an item but perhaps we need a property for it
- Info URI scheme/ This property would reference namespace descriptions from info-uri.info/ (exisits as an item but not a property) PRONOM -> http://info-uri.info/registry/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=reg&identifier=info:pronom/
- lossiness/ This property would describe whether or not a compression type is lossy lossiness used in PRONOM
- emulates/ This property would indicate the operating system emulated by an emulator
- native file format (ChemDraw --> CDX)
- validator available at URL (chemical markup language has a validator service)
- software used/This property would describe software used in the context of a research project. I could see this being used on the items for scientific articles.
- checksum