PRONOM Release Announcements

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David

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The latest PRONOM release took place on 25th July 2017 and included 42 new PUIDs, 23 updated entries, and 43 new signatures. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/aboutapps/pronom/release-notes.xml

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PRONOM signature release v92 is now available to download via the DROID signature update function or manually from here: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/aboutapps/pronom/droid-signature-files.htm (There's an updated Container Signature file too)

This release includes 18 new PUIDs (now up to 1553 in total), 14 updated entries, and 15 new identification signatures. It also fixes a rare edge-case where we were seeing a different identification outcome between Windows and Unix environments for two specific formats (Corel Presentation v7-9 and Compound WordPerfect for Windows Document 6, fact fans). We're very grateful to Ross Spencer and his work on the skeleton file format corpus (https://github.com/exponential-decay/skeleton-test-suite-generator) for identifying this problem, and to Richard Lehane and his work on the Siegfried file format identification tool (https://www.itforarchivists.com/siegfried) that together with Ross helped to pinpoint and resolve the cause of the problem.

External contributions have come from:

RM Soft Inc, South Korea (new contributor - the second ever PRONOM contribution from Asia)

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (new contributor)

Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (new contributor)

State Records New South Wales

Archives New Zealand

The Canadian Centre for Architecture

National Library of Scotland

Public Records Office Northern Ireland

Full release notes are available here: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/aboutapps/pronom/release-notes.xml

David

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PRONOM signature release v93 is now available to download via DROID's signature update function or manually from here: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/aboutapps/pronom/droid-signature-files.htm (There's an updated Container Signature file too)

V93 features 31 new PUIDs, 4 updated entries, and 31 new identification signatures.

External contribution for this release has come from:

LDS Church

University of Edinburgh

Henk Vanstappen, Datable

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

LIBIS - KU Leuven

State Library New South Wales (1st time contributor)

NARA Information Services/Applied Research Division

University of Mississippi (1st time contributor)

Nationaal Archief, the National Archives of the Netherlands (1st time contributor)

Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas (1st time contributor)

Preservica

Plus a special mention for the new entry for the Hierarchical File System - This entry and identification signature was developed as part of a recent online PRONOM signature development workshop hosted by the Open Preservation Foundation as a collaborative effort between Artefactual Systems, New York Public Libraries (1st time contributor),University of California, Los Angeles (1st time contributor) and The National Archives.

Full release notes can be found here: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/aboutapps/pronom/release-notes.xml

David

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I’m thrilled to announce the release of PRONOM update v94. This release is our largest in over 12 years (which itself was an automatic bulk import of data from an external dataset, so technically this is our largest ever release!). https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/aboutapps/pronom/release-notes.xml

 

We include:

86 new formats

31 updated entries

86 new identification signatures

 

We also introduce the new format classification ‘Font’, in line with the registration of ‘Font’ as a top level media type identifier with the Internet Assigned Names Authority.

 

We’ve included external contributions from 21 institutions/groups:

 

National Library of Australia

National Library of New Zealand

Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen

Henk Vanstappen, Datable

Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas

Canadian Centre for Architecture

Artefactual Systems

University of Edinburgh

New York Public Libraries

The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints

University of British Columbia (first time contributor)

British Library

Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover

Saxon State- and University Library Dresden (SLUB) (first time contributor)

Victoria University of Wellington

Swiss Federal Archives

Filling the Digital Preservation Gap – JISC-funded collaborative project with University of York and University of Hull

Archaeology Data Service

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

NedGraphics b.v. (first time contributor)

Rosetta Format Library Working Group

A further release will follow in Autumn, 2018.

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PRONOM update v96 went live on 21st January 2020.

This release is our biggest ever, featuring 120 new PUIDs, 25 updated entries, and 125 new signatures, helped in no small part by November’s PRONOM Research Week 2019 virtual event coordinated with Elizabeth Kata of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.

External contribution this time came from:

British Library

The Canadian Centre for Architecture

Cantonale and University Library of Lausanne

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Datable

J. Paul Getty Trust (1st time contributors)

Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen

National Archives of the Czech Republic (1st time contributors)

National Archives of Estonia

National Archives of Latvia (1st time contributors)

National Library of Australia

Norwegian Unix User Group (1st time contributors)

Preservica

Saxon State and University Library Dresden

Worcestershire Records Office (1st time contributors)

Full release notes are here: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/aboutapps/pronom/release-notes.xml and users should update signature files via DROID where appropriate.

David

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I’m thrilled to announce that PRONOM update v97 is now available. Please use the DROID signature update function or visit the signature download page to download the new signature file and container signature file manually: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/aboutapps/pronom/droid-signature-files.htm

This release is the 2nd largest (excluding the early automated update that resulted in the x-fmt PUIDs escaping), featuring 93 new PUIDs, 55 updated entries and 100 new signatures. This brings us to 213 new PUIDs for the calendar year to date. 

External contributions came from:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

National Library of Australia

Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen

National Library of Wales

The Canadian Centre for Architecture

National Archives and Records Administration

Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover

State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales

Amsterdam City Archives (first time contributor)

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (first time contributor)

John Pellman (first time contributor)

Preservica

Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt (first time contributor)

The full list of updates can be found here: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/aboutapps/pronom/release-notes.xml

PRONOM Research ‘Week’ 2020 runs from 5-19 October this year and we anticipate a further release shortly after. You can contribute via the GitHub repository: https://github.com/digital-preservation/pronom-research-week

David