Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Roger Merchberger wrote:

> Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
> >On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Cini, Richard wrote:
> >
> > > I think that we should start compiling a list of the various media we want
> > > represented and how that media is organized natively. I don't mean
> > "well, it
> > > has blocks and sectors" either. We should examine the exact format down to
> > > the actual numbers (i.e., "2048 blocks of 256-bytes recorded twice").
> > Seeing
> > > how the various data stores are organized should bring some clarity to how
> > > we should represent it.
> >
> >I agree.  This would be useful.  Does someone want to volunteer to do
> >this?
>
> I'll volunteer. Short-term, I'll prolly keep a spreadsheet with the
> relevant data & publish it to PDF for the web -- long(er) term would be
> setting up a PostgreSQL Database & either a Python or ColdFusion
> web-frontend so people could search (and possibly modify) the info on the
> fly...

Ok, I anoint thee.  Go forth and catalogue :)

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