PRONOM’s dustiest records
Tyler’s recent blog post for the PRONOM Hack-a-thon Week 2024 (my previous for this week), brought up an interesting point about two of PRONOM’s oldest outline records, Real Video Clip (fmt/204) and Real Video (x-fmt/277). How did they end up in PRONOM?
NB. because of the complexity of this post, it may be easier to read in original blog form, than on Mastodon here: https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/pronoms-dustiest-records/
Tyler suggests:
I assume PRONOM originally added these based on MIME types available.
I thought I knew the answer, but it prompted a forensic look at the records to see if what I thought I knew aligned with reality!
