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…
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…
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…
PRONOM release statistics
My contribution to PRONOM research week 2023 (held in November 2023) is a PRONOM summary website and Application Programming Interface…
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…
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…