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…
Tag: Digital Preservation (page 5)
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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…
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…
The Skeleton Test Corpus
The second post to appear on my new and somewhat humble blog is the collection of some initial bits and…