To begin with, one must explain the title of this blog and rather than representing the civil service as a whole I want to represent…
A short blog today. On 20 June 2013 my project for 2012 was completed. That is, my paper presenting to the digital preservation community The…
For me, this is a first foray into understanding software licensing… Licensing bores me. If I’ve written code and it is somewhere out there in public view…
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I managed to attend the International Digital Curation Conference in Amsterdam last week. It was a useful conference to present my work on The Skeleton…
One of the nicest features introduced by the DROID 6.01 development team (Matt Palmer, Richard Flitcroft, Richard Brennan and Alok Dash) was a simplified signature…
Identification of a format can be approached from many angles. Often a magic number will be used at the beginning of a file. This may…
Working from the bottom up and ignoring formal preservation descriptions of a file format (see: File Format a rdfs:Class) – a file format represents a place to store…
The second post to appear on my new and somewhat humble blog is the collection of some initial bits and pieces I am doing in…
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