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 "id": "ros-bag-format-2-0",
 "name": "ROS Bag Format",
 "category": "dataset",
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   "bag"
  ],
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   "fmt/2093"
  ],
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   "Q140644421"
  ],
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    "hex": "23524f534241472056322e30",
    "notes": "ROS Bag v.2"
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    "name": "ROS Bag v.2",
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      "position": "bof",
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     }
    ]
   }
  ]
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 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "The ROS (Robotic Operating System) bag format stores timestamped ROS messages for visualization, offline analysis, and playback. The messages describe data values in a structured way to facilitate retrieval. The data is stored in a chunked structure and indexed.",
 "tools": [
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   "name": "Robot Operating System",
   "url": "https://ros.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "BSD licenses",
   "open_source": true
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   "name": "PRONOM fmt/2093",
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   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q140644421",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140644421",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "version": "2.0",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}