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I'm still wondering what the purpose of PRONOM is. For me it just looks like a list of new identifiers (fmt/xxx) for MIME types. It doesn't show any useful information besides that (okay, for some files it contains signatures), it looks like it's nothing more than the file(1) database with a fancy web GUI (and these made-up identifiers). It even lists obvious compressed formats as "Compression:none". Can someone enlighten me on what I'm missing here? Are there any formats in there where the "Documentation", "Compression", Encoding" etc. tabs show up anything other than "none"? --[[User:Darkstar|Darkstar]] ([[User talk:Darkstar|talk]]) 16:27, 14 November 2013 (UTC) | I'm still wondering what the purpose of PRONOM is. For me it just looks like a list of new identifiers (fmt/xxx) for MIME types. It doesn't show any useful information besides that (okay, for some files it contains signatures), it looks like it's nothing more than the file(1) database with a fancy web GUI (and these made-up identifiers). It even lists obvious compressed formats as "Compression:none". Can someone enlighten me on what I'm missing here? Are there any formats in there where the "Documentation", "Compression", Encoding" etc. tabs show up anything other than "none"? --[[User:Darkstar|Darkstar]] ([[User talk:Darkstar|talk]]) 16:27, 14 November 2013 (UTC) | ||
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| + | :I haven't stumbled on any. Perhaps they're just stubs that somebody intends to later fill in? [[User:Dan Tobias|Dan Tobias]] ([[User talk:Dan Tobias|talk]]) 18:01, 14 November 2013 (UTC) | ||
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I'm still wondering what the purpose of PRONOM is. For me it just looks like a list of new identifiers (fmt/xxx) for MIME types. It doesn't show any useful information besides that (okay, for some files it contains signatures), it looks like it's nothing more than the file(1) database with a fancy web GUI (and these made-up identifiers). It even lists obvious compressed formats as "Compression:none". Can someone enlighten me on what I'm missing here? Are there any formats in there where the "Documentation", "Compression", Encoding" etc. tabs show up anything other than "none"? --Darkstar (talk) 16:27, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
- I haven't stumbled on any. Perhaps they're just stubs that somebody intends to later fill in? Dan Tobias (talk) 18:01, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
