Tag: Python
PRONOM release statistics
My contribution to PRONOM research week 2023 (held in November 2023) is a PRONOM summary website and Application Programming Interface…
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…
$man bot: homage to Thompson and Ritchie and the Linux man pages
A departure from my first, and revamped Twitter bot, I was inspired at work to create a more functional bot,…
Not quite perfect… A Lil’ Automatic Twitter Thingy
20-12-2012 I am informed by the time-stamp is the day I first wrote what I guess I should call a…
Binary Prime Numbers, with Added Code
Just a short blog to end the year and to follow up on something I posted a few weeks back: While…
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…
Data as Art – Data as Culture
Having just typed the original title of this blog post ‘Data as Art’ I realize it is probably the millionth blog to…