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… Continue reading “OPFCON: How has OPF contributed to the international digital preservation community? Where would this community be without OPF?”…
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)… Continue reading “Digital preservation at the coalface: or how I learned that glamping doesn’t always involve the vast wilderness”…
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… Continue reading “My GLAM: Sitting at the Coalface”…
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… Continue reading “Digital Preservation as a Thought Experiment”…
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… Continue reading “Digital Preservation Risk modelling, Uncertainty, and Digital File Format Obsolesence (European Conference on Digital Archives (2010))”…
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… Continue reading “Infinite Blue @BrooklynMuseum”…
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,… Continue reading “My first weeks at Artefactual Systems Inc.”…
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… Continue reading “Colour Theory… What’s the deal with the palettes I’m using?”…
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… Continue reading “The Painter Goblin Visits The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Top Five”…
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… Continue reading “Archives and Manuscripts, Binary Trees Paper. Published… But at what cost…?”…