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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ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
September 4–7, 2007
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division
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0-7918-4803-5
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Towards a Format Registry for Engineering Data
Michael J. Grauer,
Michael J. Grauer
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
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Iris K. Howley,
Iris K. Howley
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
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Joseph B. Kopena,
Joseph B. Kopena
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
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William C. Regli
William C. Regli
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
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Michael J. Grauer
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Iris K. Howley
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Joseph B. Kopena
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
William C. Regli
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Paper No:
DETC2007-35652, pp. 887-892; 6 pages
Published Online:
May 20, 2009
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Grauer, MJ, Howley, IK, Kopena, JB, & Regli, WC. "Towards a Format Registry for Engineering Data." Proceedings of the ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 2: 27th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Parts A and B. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. September 4–7, 2007. pp. 887-892. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2007-35652
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