Published: The Hedgehog Review! But not like you nor I imagined…
May 31 I woke to a surprise, an unanticipated message about one of my images from Leann Davis Alspaugh, the…
OPFCON: How has OPF contributed to the international digital preservation community? Where would this community be without OPF?
Last Wednesday and in another life, pre-COVID pandemic, I would have been visiting Vienna again. I visited for the digital preservation conference iPRES for the first time in 2010, and lived there for a short period of time last year.
Now, we’re in the midst of a pandemic and the Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) 10th Anniversary Event could not happen in person but the OPF found a way anyway, and so 9-10 June 2020 became the online event OPFCON.
Fortunate enough have an abstract of mine be considered worthy of a panel towards the end of the event I was able to reflect on the last 10 years. My notes on those and the panel can be found below.
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)…
My GLAM: Sitting at the Coalface
Back in October a good friend of mine at the Australian Society of Archivists Victoria Branch asked me to write…
Digital Preservation as a Thought Experiment
Back in 2017, I had an abstract accepted for a chapter in the ALCTS Monograph: Digital Preservation in Libraries: Preparing for a Sustainable Future. With my author’s copy now available, I take a look at the background and its genesis below. The complete monograph is a fascinating read with some great contributors. You can find it online at the ALA Store.
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…
Infinite Blue @BrooklynMuseum
When I visited the Brooklyn Museum in February they were in the midst of an expansive first-floor-wide exhibit. Surveying the…
My first weeks at Artefactual Systems Inc.
There was a great response to my move away from the public sector into a private sector company (that’s right,…
Colour Theory… What’s the deal with the palettes I’m using?
Following a recent conversation, I wanted to write this blog to add some final pieces of context to my current…
The Painter Goblin Visits The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Top Five
I’m heading to Houston for the first time this Friday, for ten-days. I can’t wait! To fill my time before…