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…
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.