Category: Digital Preservation (page 3)
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
In 2019 I was staying in Hamburg for a short amount of time while I was waiting for my Canadian visa. It was around the time of the iPRES digital preservation conference and I was only a few hours away. While I hoped my work would send me it was not going to be my year. I then hoped I would take myself there anyway by writing a computer game; inspired by Board Games sessions in 2017 and 2018. Alas, that didn’t work out either, but I did end up with a piece of work I am still very proud of.
Nibble in Cyberspace: Digipres Adventures, Vol 1. Homepage: https://ross-spencer.github.io/nibble/
Client-side file format identification and reporting pipeline with Siegfried and Demystify Lite
With thanks to the sponsorship of Archives New Zealand and Richard Lehane for his great coding expertise and his collaboration; Demystify Lite has a new feature — Siegfried!!
Richard recently posted about this work on LinkedIn but lets look at this effort in more detail below.
Digital Preservation and the Gen-Z Technology Skills Gap
I saw this interesting video by Ema Roloff on a Gen-Z skills gap as identified by Salesforce. Of many interesting…
We love our fiefdoms: The DPC and Wikidata
Andy Jackson is doing some positive work for the DPC, especially in his low-level look at Wikidata recently (external blog).…
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…
Not your first paper from iPRES2024: Design patterns in Digital Preservation: Declarative software for digital preservationists
Well folks, my paper for iPRES2024 was rejected. but the good news is that you get to read it here…
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…