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xan/docs/LOVE_LETTER.md at master · medialab/xan

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:39:13 +0000

It is therefore my intention, through this article, to write a love letter to this data format, often criticized for the wrong reasons, even more so when it is somehow deemed "cool" to hate on it. My point is not, far from it, to say that CSV is a silver bullet but rather to shine a light on some of the format's sometimes overlooked strengths.

Tags: #csv #data #formats

SQLite: the Case against Custom Application File Formats | Stackful.io

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:45:30 +0000

So, here is my thought experiment -- whenever you have the urge of building a custom file format, just don't.

Tags: #data #formats #imported:pinboard #programming #sqlite

SQLite: the Case against Custom Application File Formats | Stackful.io

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:45:30 +0000

So, here is my thought experiment -- whenever you have the urge of building a custom file format, just don't.

Tags: #data #formats #programming #sqlite

WARC, Web ARChive file format

Thu, 24 May 2012 02:49:54 +0000

The WARC (Web ARChive) format specifies a method for combining multiple digital resources into an aggregate archival file together with related information. The WARC format is a revision of the Internet Archive's ARC File Format [ARC_IA] format that has traditionally been used to store "web crawls" as sequences of content blocks harvested from the World Wide Web. The WARC format generalizes the older format to better support the harvesting, access, and exchange needs of archiving organizations. Besides the primary content currently recorded, the revision accommodates related secondary content, such as assigned metadata, abbreviated duplicate detection events, and later-date transformations.

Tags: #archival #archive #archiving #at:aadl #formats #imported:pinboard #standards #via:textfiles #warc #web

Posterity | Jeni's Musings

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:50:02 +0000

"here I am using radically different software, in a completely different world, and these pieces from my past are lost, irretrievable because of the formats used to save them (as well as the hardware on which they’re saved: it’s getting harder to read

Tags: #archives #bitrot #data #formats #posterity

Juggling oranges [dive into mark]

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:26:07 +0000

"I finally got everything into a single archive in an open, stable format... and just 3 short years later, Apple found a way to screw me one last time."

Tags: #apple #archival #authoring #formats #iphoto #itunes #osx #writing

Wired News: The Dead Formats Society

Tue, 23 May 2006 14:09:55 +0000

"My CD-ROM is accessible only to cranks and connoisseurs, members of the "dead formats society" who've invested in the dead tech required to play it."

Tags: #copyfight #data #formats #future #writing

OpenDoc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:32:59 +0000

"The basic idea of OpenDoc was to create small single-purpose reusable components responsible for a specific task, such as text editing, bitmap editing or browsing an FTP server."

Tags: #apple #documents #formats #programming