Don’t implement PREMIS (re)present it
I got a response to my paper PREMIS Events Through an Event-Source Lens.
There are two strange choices made by this response. I’ll touch on the more personal one at the end, but first, what does the response say?
Making DROID work with Wikidata
Wikidata is a good service, Wikibase (on which Wikidata is built) is a better platform.
I have spoken before about its potential to be added into the file-format registry ecosystem in a federated model.
If we are to use it as a registry that can perhaps complement the pipelines going into PRONOM, e.g. in vendor’s digital preservation platforms such as the Rosetta Format Library, a Wikidata should be able to output different serializations of signature file for tools such as Siegfried, DROID or FIDO.
- Siegfried ✅: https://github.com/richardlehane/siegfried/wiki/Wikidata-identifier
- Fido ❌: I’ll need to revisit this!
And what about DROID?
Nibble in Cyberspace: Digipres Adventures, Vol 1
Client-side file format identification and reporting pipeline with Siegfried and Demystify Lite
Digital Preservation and the Gen-Z Technology Skills Gap
We love our fiefdoms: The DPC and Wikidata
iPRES2024: Self-sovereign-digital preservation: The reviewers enjoyed your submission, but… what reviewers???
Not your first paper from iPRES2024: Design patterns in Digital Preservation: Declarative software for digital preservationists
Demystify-lite is upgraded and demystify 2.0.0 is finally here!