n130401 nfoWorks nfoNote Document Container Profile

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Although the Zip format is predominantly used as an archive and package format for preservation and interchange of collections of digital files, it is increasingly used as a container for multiple-part data organizations that are unrelated to organization of files in file systems.

Use of Zip as a carrier for document formats that have multiple, coordinated parts is now common.  The Document Container Profile adapts the Zip format to this specific purpose.  The Profile is employed in nfoWorks implementations of Zip-based document formats.  The Profile tracks with the International Standard ISO/IEC 21320-1, Document Container File format based on Zip.

The Profile goes beyond DCF Core by providing test assertions and test/verification suites.  There is also additional provision for incorporation under profiles for higher-level applications of DCF, as in OpenDocument Format (ODF) Package provisions.

1. Document Container Profile Key Resources
2. nfoWorks Usage of the Document Container Profile
3. Folio Catalog

1. Document Container Profile Key Resources

The following resources are the backbone of the effort to establish a multiple-use nfoWorks Document Container Profile that has broad usage for container-born artifacts and reference implementations under nfoWorks:

• 1.1 PKWARE APPNOTE 6.3.3 (cache)
  This specification of the Zip format is the basis for Document Container Profile 1.0.  Specifications of the profile and test assertions for verification of its observance are directly or indirectly based on provisions of this specification.
     
• 1.2 Document Container File - Core (cache)
  Information technology -- Document Container File -- Part 1: Core.  International Standard ISO/IEC 21320-1, First Edition 2015-10-15.  Part of material available at <http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/i ndex.html> (cf. entry for Standard ISO/IEC 21320-1:2015)
     
• 1.3 OpenDocument Package Specification (tbd)
    
• 1.4 Open Package Conventions (OPC) (tbd)
    
• 1.5 EPUB 3 Open Container Format 3.0 (OCF) (tbd)
   

2. nfoWorks Usage of the Document Container Profile

This section will be expanded as the profile is applied in nfoWorks functions.

3. Folio Catalog

• n130401b: Document Container Profile [latest]
        
• n130401c: Resources and Preliminaries
• n130401a: Diary & Job Jar
    
• n130401-cache: Document Cache
  local copies of essential resources for preservation purposes and availability in conjunction with Document Container Profile application
• n130401-secluded: Secluded Resources
  cached materials for which access and redistribution are not permitted, secluded in an inaccessible location for preservation of provenance with regard to reliance on those resources.  Known public sources are provided in the n130401-cache bibliographic references.
   

Attribution:

Hamilton, Dennis E.

Document Container Profile.   nfoWorks nfoNote folio n130401 0.0.3, February 25, 2017.  Accessed at <http://nfoWorks.org/notes/2013/04/n130401.htm>.

Revision History:

0.0.3 2017-02-25-16:16 Switch to Semantic Versioning, Update to better references.

0.02 2016-05-09-13:59 Switch to Seclusion and Reflect ISO/IEC Availability of DCF Core

Reflect the availability of the DCF Core International Standard and touch up the description for the profile.

0.01 2013-05-07-12:50 Provide Simple Sketch Framework

The essentials are provided to enough detail to provide the next level on the Resources and Preliminaries page.

0.00 2013-04-17-18:19 Placeholder Cover Page for Initial Material

Also start a job jar page for recording work items for building more content.  The initial folio is derived from the clone of an existing folio.

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