Shattering the eyeglass: Using Kaitai Structs to dissect the eyeglass’ contents
In my post from 2012: Genesis of a File Format, I created a new file format – the eyeglass file…
Tag: Digital Preservation (page 3)
Moonshine: a small part of the file format analyst’s toolkit
Today I released Moonshine 2.0.0. Moonshine is a a file format discovery tool I developed a few years ago. A…
Signposting: What is the checksum of a directory? Introducing sumfolder1
In Fractal in detail: What information is in a file-format identification report? I describe the different ways of dissecting the…
Published: PREMIS Events Through an Event-sourced Lens
Not long after my first Code4Lib article I had another idea to run by the team there, and elected to see…
Information Maintainers talk: Something something twenty years open source…
It was back in May, yes, way back when, that Jordan Hale of the Information Maintainers group put the following to me:
I write today to ask if you’d be interested in being our special guest on the next Information Maintainers call … we thought your perspective on working within and maintaining decentralized, small-group systems and development infrastructures would be really rad to hear about. What do you think?
I was pretty stoked. So of course, I jumped at the chance and wrote about “Something something twenty years open source…”
Digital preservation at the coalface: or how I learned that glamping doesn’t always involve the vast wilderness
The last Friday of March this year I was invited by Elizabeth Kata at the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)…
My GLAM: Sitting at the Coalface
Back in October a good friend of mine at the Australian Society of Archivists Victoria Branch asked me to write…
Digital Preservation as a Thought Experiment
Finally available to share is my author’s copy of a chapter I have written in recently published book: Digital Preservation in…
Digital Preservation Risk analysis, Uncertainty, and Digital File Format Obsolescence (European Conference on Digital Archives (2010))
Full paper: The application of risk models to digital file format obsolescence I have seen a lot of conversation about…
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,…