Context Switching: Do you really need to be an archivist programmer? One perspective…
The first in what I hope will be, a series of blogs. This blog has been torn from an introduction…
Binary Trees? Automatically Identifying the Links Between Born-digital Records
I recently presented a summary of a paper I am looking to publish in the Australian Society of Archivists Journal,…
Key :: Value Access Language (KVAL) for BoltDB and Golang
With some forced downtime as the effects of the Kaikōura earthquake are felt here on the North Island, with the shutdown of Archives New Zealand, what better way to spend it than creating a new grammar and parser for key-value databases? I have spent the last few weeks developing a specification for a Key-Value Access Language (KVAL) and implementing a binding for it for Golang’s BoltDB. I hope it will be of interest to folks, but let’s take a look at it in more detail below.
2015: A Year in Binary
Quietly over new year my second binary numbers project completed. The project was my first ever Twitter Bot and its…
How Exactly Does the iPhone Transmit Diverse Emoji Characters?
It started a short time ago when Cooper Hewitt released their Unicode tools for Python: https://github.com/cooperhewitt/py-cooperhewitt-unicode Also available in Golang…
$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,…
Dynamic avatars on Twitter
The visualization tells me that the first publication from my Twitter bot, created to dynamically update my avatars daily was 20 December 2012. My bot was a simple Python script that generated images in binary to represent the day of the month.
Why?
Well, doesn’t it get a little boring looking at the same thing every day?
Lets look at the details below.
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 previously at The National Archives, UK.
Where the work goes, we will have to see. Open sourcing it was an important goal of the short sprint. Partly because I hope it demonstrates an architecture that can be adopted for a similar registry, and it may also provide a code-base that can be adapted for similar, linked open data projects. This blog provides an overview of that architecture…
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.