Cyberenvironments and Technologies Directorate at NCSA. Overview Preservation can be thought of as communication with the future. The records we preserve today need to be accessible and displayable by future technology. Beyond maintaining the accessibility of the raw bits of the digital data, preservation requires maintaining an ability to interpret the data as meaningful structures, relationships, and visual representations. We are contributing to the development of a preservation system that would dramatically lower the per-file-format effort required for preservation. In particular, we are contirbuting to the development a format description language (the Data Format Description Language) and format-independent parser (Daffodil) to support interpretation of arbitrary binary or ASCII formatted files in terms of well-defined logical models.
The Technology The DFDL is a language to describe existing data formats, both binary and text, in a manner that makes the data accessible through generic mechanisms. Team Members Robert E. McGrath, R.E., J. The Largest List of Text Message Shorthand (IM, SMS) and Internet Acronyms Found of the Web - kept current and up-to-date by NetLingo The Internet Dictionary. FreeRice.