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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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