Not your first paper from iPRES2024: Design patterns in Digital Preservation: Declarative software for digital preservationists
Well folks, my paper for iPRES2024 was rejected. but the good news is that you get to read it here…
Tag: kaitai
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 format. The format provides a mechanism to persist information about a patient’s eye health following a checkup at an opticians. Today in 2023 we can use the format to understand how to make use of Kaitai Structs for understanding file formats.
Given the disclaimer that I am not actually an optician and that the format is purely illustrative, let’s look at the eyeglass again below.