OPFCON: How has OPF contributed to the international digital preservation community? Where would this community be without OPF?
In another life I would have been visiting Vienna again last Wednesday. I visited and lived there for a short…
Digital preservation at the coalface: or how I learned that glamping doesn’t always involve the vast wilderness
The last Friday of March this year I was invited by Elizabeth Kata at the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)…
My GLAM: Sitting at the Coalface
Back in October a good friend of mine at the Australian Society of Archivists Victoria Branch asked me to write…
Digital Preservation as a Thought Experiment
Finally available to share is my author’s copy of a chapter I have written in recently published book: Digital Preservation in…
Digital Preservation Risk modelling, Uncertainty, and Digital File Format Obsolesence (European Conference on Digital Archives (2010))
Full paper: The application of risk models to digital file format obsolescence I have seen a lot of conversation about…
Infinite Blue @BrooklynMuseum
When I visited the Brooklyn Museum in February they were in the midst of an expansive first-floor-wide exhibit. Surveying the…
My first weeks at Artefactual Systems Inc.
There was a great response to my move away from the public sector into a private sector company (that’s right,…
Colour Theory… What’s the deal with the palettes I’m using?
Following a recent conversation, I wanted to write this blog to add some final pieces of context to my current…
The Painter Goblin Visits The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Top Five
I’m heading to Houston for the first time this Friday, for ten-days. I can’t wait! To fill my time before…
Archives and Manuscripts, Binary Trees Paper. Published… But at what cost…?
Heads up. This is probably not a comfortable piece for most to read. It’s not OTT. It’s not particularly sensitive. It…