What is PRONOM?[edit]

PRONOM is a web-based technical registry to support digital preservation services, developed by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.

What Properties does PRONOM use?[edit]

Let's take a look at how PRONOM describes the Tagged Image File Format

PRONOM attribute	Example	Wikidata
Name	Tagged Image File Format	English label for item TIFF (Q215106)
Version	N/A	software version identifier (P348)
Other names	TIFF	alias for label (Also known as)
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/353	PRONOM file format ID (P2748)
Family	N/A	Wikidata describes these relationships using class/ subclass relationships
Classification	Image (Raster)	multiple ways to express this
Disclosure	Full (level of public disclosure provided for format specification)	Property needs to be created
Description	The Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) is a raster image format originally developed by the Aldus Corporation, primarily for use in scanning and desktop publishing...	Wikidata also has a description field
Orientation	N/A	Property needs to be created
Byte order	Little-endian (Intel) and Big-endian (Motorola)	Property needs to be created
Related file formats	Has lower priority than Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed) (2.2)...	Wikidata would need to express these relationships using specific properties
Technical Environment	N/A
Released	01 Aug 1986	publication date (P577)
Supported until	N/A	Property needs to be created, there are other ways of expressing this in Wikidata
Format Risk	N/A	Property needs to be created
Developed by	N/A	developer (P178)
Supported by	N/A	Property needs to be created
Source	Example	Wikidata uses references to source claims
Source description	N/A	This pertains to TNA process
Last updated	07 Jul 2011	This would be expressed as a qualifier to a reference