News from the digital preservation community
Euan Cochrane wrote a nice tool for the identification of floppy disk formats from kryoflux stream files: github
ffmprovisr - Making FFmpeg Easier: github
Tracking versions with PAV: The PAV ontology specializes the W3C PROV-O standard to give a lightweight approach to recording details about a resource, giving its Provenance, Authorship and Versioning. https://practicalprovenance.wordpress.com
Migrating Files to Preservation Formats - Theory: http://archival-integration.blogspot.de
There Will Be No Digital Dark Age : Archivists on the Issues is a forum for archivists to discuss the issues we are facing today. Linked is a post from Bertram Lyons addressing the alleged “Digital Dark Age.” https://issuesandadvocacy.wordpress.com/
David Rosenthal on the future of storage : dshr’s blog
Transforming Archives: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies on digitisation : blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Alexandra Curran with a NDSR-Boston Capstone Poster on Twitter: Sleuthing Digital Preservation Storage Options
imagemagick-identify-parser, a Python utility to parse text output from the ImageMagick Identify tool and convert to JSON, XML and iRODS : on Github
Gary McGath on XKCD on digital preservation : Mad File Format Science
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