Conference proceeding
Towards a format registry for engineering data: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING TECHNICAL CONFERENCES AND COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE
27TH COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, VOL 2, PTS A AND B 2007, pp.887-892
01 Jan 2008
Abstract
There has been a great deal of interest recently in the problem of long term archiving of digital data. This is especially so in engineering design, where the CAD software tools evolve rapidly but the manufactured products themselves have much longer lifetimes whose support requires archived design data in a usable form. The ISO Open Archival Information Systems (OAIS) Reference Model is a widely used standard for digital archiving, with an essential piece of this model being a file format registry. A file format registry is a system for housing information about file formats that allows for correct interpretation, rendering, storage, and translation of digital files. Currently there exists no file format registry specifically for CAD file formats.
This paper explains the purpose of a file format registry for CAD in the greater context of digital archiving, and then presents our approach to creating a CAD file format registry using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) language of the Semantic Web. By creating our file format registry in RDF we allow archival systems to perform automated reasoning on the stored files. We hope that this paper will increase awareness of this element of engineering design repositories in the research community of this conference.
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- Title
- Towards a format registry for engineering data
- Creators
- Michael J. Grauer - Drexel UniversityIris K. Howley - Drexel Univ, Coll Engn, Dept Comp Sci, Geometr & Intelligent Comp Lab, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USAJoseph B. Kopena - Drexel UniversityWilliam C. Regli - Drexel UniversityASME
- Publication Details
- 27TH COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, VOL 2, PTS A AND B 2007, pp.887-892
- Conference
- 27TH COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, 27th
- Publisher
- Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers
- Number of pages
- 6
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Identifiers
- 991019357763804721
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- Engineering, Mechanical