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Tyler's Halloween Matryoshka Dolls represent the internal complexities of container file formats. The dolls here have formats attached to them representing different ways they might be nested, with ZIP and OLE2 being the primary containers that can be handled in DROID and Siegfried at present.

A year in file formats 2024

A great write up from Francesca at TNA about the past year for PRONOM via Georgia at the OPF.

It’s great to see the continuing work including vital translation of guides into other languages. Francesca includes a couple of shout outs to some pieces I have contributed in my spare time this year; including a collaborative workshop with Francesca, David, and Tyler at iPRES2024.

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…

iPRES2024 header for DESIGN PATTERNS IN DIGITAL PRESERVATION: DECLARATIVE SOFTWARE FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATIONISTS

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…

Talk: Using a custom Wikibase with Siegfried

In March I was invited by the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group to talk about my experiences using Wikibase with Siegfried,…

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…

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…

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)…

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…

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A year in file formats 2024

iPRES2024: Self-sovereign-digital preservation: The reviewers enjoyed your submission, but… what reviewers???

Not your first paper from iPRES2024: Design patterns in Digital Preservation: Declarative software for digital preservationists

Talk: Using a custom Wikibase with Siegfried

Information Maintainers talk: Something something twenty years open source…

OPFCON: How has OPF contributed to the international digital preservation community? Where would this community be without OPF?

Digital preservation at the coalface: or how I learned that glamping doesn’t always involve the vast wilderness

Digital Preservation Risk analysis, Uncertainty, and Digital File Format Obsolescence (European Conference on Digital Archives (2010))

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