Components
The NSRL is made up of three major elements:
- A large physical collection of commercial software packages (e.g., operating systems, off-the-shelf application software;
- A database containing detailed information, or metadata, about each file that makes up each of those software packages;
- A smaller public dataset containing the most widely-used metadata for each file in the collection that is published and updated quarterly. This is called the Reference Data Set.
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