Hacking the DROID Signature File: Keep It Simple Stupid!
One of the nicest features introduced by the DROID 6.01 development team (Matt Palmer, Richard Flitcroft, Richard Brennan and Alok…
Hacking the DROID Signature File for Characterization
Identification of a format can be approached from many angles. Often a magic number will be used at the beginning…
Genesis of a File Format
Working from the bottom up and ignoring formal preservation descriptions of a file format (see: File Format a rdfs:Class) – a file…
Message in a Bottle
It’s a little bit like throwing a bottle into the cosmic ocean. – Carl Sagan There were some nice moments in…
Data as Art – Data as Culture
Having just typed the original title of this blog post ‘Data as Art’ I realize it is probably the millionth blog to share it. A minor modification should help to identify it among the countless others…
This week, as the newly founded Open Data Institute (ODI) embraces data-as-culture I am reminded about a visualization I attempted a short while back – visualizing prime numbers.
The Skeleton Test Corpus
The second post to appear on my new and somewhat humble blog is the collection of some initial bits and…
pidgeracer.tumblr.com
Welcome to my blog on exponentialdecay.co.uk. Inspired by the writing of my previous colleagues and my own attempts at doing so…