Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: Very interesting: http://www.caps-project.org/glossary.php?term=ipf IPF (Interchangeable Preservation Format) Glossary: 100, Last Updated: 2004-02-20 IPF stands for Interchangeable Preservation Format, and is the file format we use to preserve content. It is a name for what is we use to store (currently Amiga) floppy disk images. It is abstract for very good reasons: It is not meant just for the Amiga: The image format was designed to be used for anything, and as such, it is possible for any platform to have its media supported. In fact, some of the track formats used for Amiga copy protection are actually PC/Atari anyway. It is not just for disks: Any type of digital media can be contained by the format. Currently it is used for disk images and ROM files, but in the future it may possibly be used for CDROMs and information contained in "dongle" protections. The underlying file format has many similarities to the IFF (Interchangeable File Format) standard on the Amiga, which was a very forward-thinking format. The same techniques are used today in other file formats such as PNG. -- This is pretty much what I'm proposing. I wonder where the description of their format is though? I can't find it anywhere on their website. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]