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Last week I blogged<\/a> about the publication of a new linked data format registry based on the work I did previously at The National Archives, UK.<\/p>\n

Where the work goes, we will have to see. Open sourcing<\/a> it was an important goal of the short sprint. Partly because I hope it demonstrates an architecture that can be adopted for a similar registry, and it may also provide a code-base that can be adapted for similar, linked open data projects. This blog provides an overview of that architecture…<\/p>\n

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First, I must acknowledge the Puelia<\/a> Linked Open Data API that was released by Talis in the UK. I’ve used this API previously and part of my understanding of how it works has translated across into this work. It’s a deceptively simple model and there might be recognisable features in this. I have, however, created my own platform from scratch and for various reasons that was a more desirable approach for what I wanted to achieve.<\/p>\n

Export of data from PRONOM…<\/strong><\/p>\n

The basic seed for the registry, as with a handful of others in recent years, P2<\/a>, and UDFR<\/a>, to name two, is the baseline PRONOM dataset. XML is exposed for this data, and can be scraped by accessing the following URLs, using an incremental numbering scheme:<\/p>\n