$man bot: homage to Thompson and Ritchie and the Linux man pages
A departure from my first, and revamped Twitter bot, I was inspired at work to create a more functional bot,…
Not quite perfect… A Lil’ Automatic Twitter Thingy
20-12-2012 I am informed by the time-stamp is the day I first wrote what I guess I should call a…
Architecture of The-FR.org
Last week I blogged about the publication of a new linked data format registry based on the work I did…
the-fr.org :: The Format Registry
As the story goes, I got home last Thursday. 14 November, 2013; A tweet from the previous day, still on…
Looking Back, MMV: MA Digital Culture and Technology: Digitisation of the Comic Book
2005 saw the completion of my Master of Arts in Digital Culture and Technology. My specialization within the School of Digital Humanities at Kings College London was Material Culture and Technology, writing about what we could learn from comic books, how we could preserve them and at the same time remain faithful to the material culture surrounding them.
The Civil Servant Perspective
To begin with, one must explain the title of this blog and rather than representing the civil service as a…
Published! The Skeleton Test Corpus
A short blog today. On 20 June 2013 my project for 2012 was completed. That is, my paper presenting to…
Shouldn’t digital preservation tools be released under the GNU General Public License?
For me, this is a first foray into understanding software licensing… Licensing bores me. If I’ve written code and it is…
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The Problem With… Comprehensive Test Suites. Lessons Learned During The Development Of The Skeleton Test Corpus
I managed to attend the International Digital Curation Conference in Amsterdam last week. It was a useful conference to present…
Binary Prime Numbers, with Added Code
Just a short blog to end the year and to follow up on something I posted a few weeks back: While…