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…
Category: Python
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…
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…
PRONOM release statistics
My contribution to PRONOM research week 2023 (held in November 2023) is a PRONOM summary website and Application Programming Interface…
Linting as understanding
I have been working on a Python template repository as part of my day-job at Orcfax. It is based on…
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…
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.…