{
  "fileFormatID": 3970,
  "version": "2.0",
  "formatName": "ROS Bag Format",
  "formatDescription": "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.",
  "formatTypes": "Dataset",
  "formatNote": "https://www.openrobotics.org/ https://wiki.ros.org/",
  "lastUpdatedDate": "09 Jun 2026",
  "formatSourceDate": "09 Jun 2026",
  "identifiers": [
    {
      "identifierText": "fmt/2093",
      "identifierType": "PUID"
    }
  ],
  "internalSignatures": [
    {
      "signatureID": 3458,
      "name": "ROS Bag v.2",
      "note": "BOF; Offset: 0; Magic Bytes: #ROSBAG V2.0",
      "byteSequences": [
        {
          "positionType": "Absolute from BOF",
          "offset": 0,
          "maxOffset": 0,
          "byteSequence": "23524F534241472056322E30",
          "endianness": null,
          "byteSequenceID": 3852
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "externalSignatures": [
    {
      "externalSignature": "bag",
      "signatureType": "File extension"
    }
  ],
  "relationships": [],
  "submittedBy": [
    299
  ]
}