Update on Dryad file types?

[Carl Boettiger]

Are there any recent estimates of the numbers of each kind of file in Dryad that could be shared publicly?  Ryan Scherle sent an email to the dev-list with counts of each file type on 2013-02-14 which was really informative; so I was hoping some updated statistics might be available?  (That discussion also raised the issue of identifying file types within archive formats, which were not reported at that time).

Thanks much!

Best,

Carl

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[Elizabeth Hull]

Hi Carl,

We should be able to pull something together soon. I do have a more recent version from 2015, attached. We anticipate a very different-looking list in 2017!

Best,

Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Hull

Operations Manager, Dryad

[Carl Boettiger]

Thanks!

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[Carl Boettiger]

Hi Elizabeth, Dryad folks,

Should have asked, is there a preferred way to cite Dryad for providing these stats?  Also, is there a version of this data that includes counts by filetype?

Thanks again,

Carl

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[Elizabeth Hull]

Carl,

Apologies, I didn't look carefully enough at the file I attached. The file type numbers from February 2015 are below, and we should have a current list for you soon.

Since we don't currently publish this anywhere, not sure how you would cite this other than to say that the stats were provided by Dryad.

5, Open Document Format Spreadsheet

2655, Comma-separated values (CSV)

   2, Tex/LateX document

2987, Microsoft Excel OpenXML

2522, Unknown data format

  10, Microsoft PowerPoint OpenXML

   4, Microsoft Powerpoint 97-2007

2040, Microsoft Excel 97-2007

  32, Audio Video Interleave (AVI)

  21, FASTA QUAL File

  76, Perl program

1495, FASTA sequence file

  15, Keyhole Markup Language (KML)

 285, Rich Text Format (RTF)

 490, R script

 210, Phylogeny Inference Package (Phylip)

  38, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

   7, Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)

  16, Portable Network Graphics (PNG)

 209, JPEG Image

  25, MP3 audio

2335, Zip archive

  60, Python program

  33, Mathematica Notebook

1339, Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)

  24, Postscript

  59, UNIX Tar File Gzipped (TGZ)

  10, MPEG-4 video

 135, Bzip2 archive

  13, Quicktime Video

   4, Web Ontology Language (OWL)

  22, Microsoft Excel Binary XML

  89, Wave Audio Format

   2, Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

 211, Roshal ARchive (RAR)

 556, GZip archive

 356, Newick tree file

 596, Microsoft Word OpenXML

 238, Tag Image File Format (TIFF)

9769, Plain Text

  96, Tape Archive File (TAR)

   2, Item-specific license agreed upon to submission

 493, Microsoft Word 97-2007

 267, Extensible Markup Language (XML)

1283, Nexus

[Carl Boettiger]

Thanks!

[Ryan Scherle]

Hi Carl,

An updated version of this list is now on GitHub, at 

https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-data/blob/master/dataFiles/dataFileFormatCount20170216.csv

Hope that helps!

— Ryan

[Carl Boettiger]

Great, thanks!