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,…
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Published: Archives and Manuscripts, Binary Trees
This week (beginning 7 August 2017) marks my second solo published peer-reviewed paper. Binary trees? Automatically identifying the links between born-digital records. I invite everyone to have a read and let me know what you think.
The paper won the Sigrid McCausland Emerging Writers Award late in 2018.
Read the paper and additional thoughts below.
Brainscape Flashcards: For Digital Preservation
Digital preservation is massively multi-disciplinary and it can take time to be able to grasp the skills and concepts cross-discipline, wherever you began your own training.
How do we develop the skills of new folk entering the field today?
How do we re-skill those who have worked in GLAM a long time in disciplines other than digital preservation?
These are questions I think about a lot. I dig into some of those thoughts below and take a look at one approach I worked on for students and very early-career professionals with flashcards using Brainscape.
Ménage-à-préservation: The tensions of Digital Preservation as-a-Service…
Digital preservation as-a-service (DPaaS) is a concept that could potentially allow many more users to satisfy the need to maintain ‘records’. Be those records in government, in another so-called GLAM institution, or one’s own personal memories and artefacts.
DPaaS makes sense on a number of levels as it enables the sharing of some very expensive infrastructure and individuals (storage, backup, delivery servers, software maintenance, engineers).
Those savings could be significant but I’m not aware of any single exemplar of the complete DPaaS infrastructure operating out there right now.
My instinct is that this is because one does not simply do digital preservation.
But that’s an overly dramatic simplification. I wrote up some rough notes off the back of a conversation. I take a look at these below.
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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 trying to see published in the Australian Society of Archivists…
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.