The Painter Goblin Visits The Met’s Top-Ten
Inspired by a Creative Commons (CC) blog the Painter Goblin decided to tackle the top-ten visual artworks at The Met Museum (July…
The Painter Goblin: Part 5, And Finally…
The work on the Painter Goblin is nearly done for now. The automation of his work is almost ironed out…
The Painter Goblin: Part 4, Putting it all together…
Following the previous posts, bringing this all together meant three different applications. Paintergoblin.py – creates the images, can be run…
The Painter Goblin: Part 3, Data Sources
One thing that held the Painter Goblin project back was finding a data source to get images from. There are…
The Painter Goblin: Part 2, Twitter Pieces
Continuing the story from Painter Goblin part one, the idea of a Twitter bot started to form earlier this year.…
The Painter Goblin: Part 1, The Zine
I wrote a new Twitter bot two weekends back; The Painter Goblin: https://twitter.com/paintergoblin The Painter Goblin was inspired by a…
Brainscape Flashcards: For Digital Preservation
Digital preservation is massively multi-disciplinary and it can take time to be able to grasp the skills and concepts cross-discipline,…
Ménage-à-préservation: The tensions of Digital Preservation as-a-Service…
Some rough notes about the potential of ‘digital preservation as-a-service’… Digital preservation as-a-service (DPaaS) is a concept that could potentially…
Digital Preservation: The Job Application
I recently, applied for a pretty cool role in digital archiving and digital preservation. Applying for the role and considering…
Context Switching: Do you really need to be an archivist programmer? One perspective…
The first in what I hope will be, a series of blogs. This blog has been torn from an introduction…