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…
Category: Digital Preservation (page 3)
A rough guide to digital preservation metadata
A rough guide to metadata I published on Twitter once upon day and again in Content-disposition: Archival – Repatriating Dates…
Shattering the eyeglass: Using Kaitai Structs to dissect the eyeglass’ contents
In my post from 2012: Genesis of a File Format, I created a new file format – the eyeglass file…
Linting as understanding
I have been working on a Python template repository as part of my day-job at Orcfax. It is based on…
Moonshine: a small part of the file format analyst’s toolkit
Today I released Moonshine 2.0.0. Moonshine is a a file format discovery tool I developed a few years ago. A…
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…
Published: Fractal in detail: What information is in a file format identification report?
Back in early 2022 I was finally able to get around to writing a paper that I had been thinking…
Information Maintainers talk: Something something twenty years open source…
It was back in May, yes, way back when, that Jordan Hale of the Information Maintainers group put the following to me:
I write today to ask if you’d be interested in being our special guest on the next Information Maintainers call … we thought your perspective on working within and maintaining decentralized, small-group systems and development infrastructures would be really rad to hear about. What do you think?
I was pretty stoked. So of course, I jumped at the chance and wrote about “Something something twenty years open source…”
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…