Client-side file format identification and reporting pipeline with Siegfried and Demystify Lite
Demystify Lite has a new feature — Siegfried!! With thanks to Richard Lehane, and the opportunity to make this possible…
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iPRES2024: Self-sovereign-digital preservation: The reviewers enjoyed your submission, but… what reviewers???
*Knocking gently on the door* “is anyone there, iPRES2024“? One thing I didn’t make clear in my previous iPRES2024 post…
Demystify-lite is upgraded and demystify 2.0.0 is finally here!
Demystify-lite and Demystify 2.0.0 have been released featuring the denylist for the first time, plus some bonus features! With thanks…
Moving to Leipzig and the year ahead
Late 2023 ended with a move to Leipzig. The move was driven by a switch back to full-time contracting in…
Signposting: What is the checksum of a directory? Introducing sumfolder1
In Fractal in detail: What information is in a file-format identification report? I describe the different ways of dissecting the…
Published: PREMIS Events Through an Event-sourced Lens
Not long after my first Code4Lib article I had another idea to run by the team there, and elected to see…
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 Risk analysis, Uncertainty, and Digital File Format Obsolescence (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…
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,…