Shattering the eyeglass: Using Kaitai Structs to dissect the eyeglass’ contents
In my post from 2012: Genesis of a File Format, I created a new file format – the eyeglass file…
Author: Ross Spencer
Ross Spencer has a BSc in Software Engineering and an MA in Digital Culture and Technology. After finishing university in 2006 he has spent time as a Technical Support Assistant and Junior C++ Analyst Developer for companies with varying specialties. At The National Archives he worked in the Digital Preservation Department as a Digital Preservation Researcher. His current research interests include the development of a linked data system to deliver the content of The National Archives’ technical registry as linked open data, file format research and digital signature development.
Linting as understanding
I have been working on a Python template repository as part of my day-job at Orcfax. It is based on…
Moonshine: a small part of the file format analyst’s toolkit
Today I released Moonshine 2.0.0. Moonshine is a a file format discovery tool I developed a few years ago. A…
Talk: Using a custom Wikibase with Siegfried
In March I was invited by the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group to talk about my experiences using Wikibase with Siegfried,…
Signposting: What is the checksum of a directory? Introducing sumfolder1
In Fractal in detail: What information is in a file-format identification report? I describe the different ways of dissecting the…
Published: PREMIS Events Through an Event-sourced Lens
Not long after my first Code4Lib article I had another idea to run by the team there, and elected to see…
Published: Fractal in detail: What information is in a file format identification report?
Back in early 2022 I was finally able to get around to writing a paper that I had been thinking…
Programming things: Giving up… (or at least getting bitten by semver and Golang’s unforgiving nature, and wanting to!)
There are good days, and there are bad days when coding, and you never stop learning. Today was not a…
Information Maintainers talk: Something something twenty years open source…
It was back in May, yes, way back when, that Jordan Hale of the Information Maintainers group put the following…
Published: The Hedgehog Review! But not like you nor I imagined…
May 31 I woke to a surprise, an unanticipated message about one of my images from Leann Davis Alspaugh, the…