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OPF Hackathon: A Practical Approach to Disk Images & Digital Forensics
Link: Event registrationRegistration is now closed.The world of digital forensics offers many useful and practical techniques for capturing, understanding and preserving digital collections. This OPF...
View ArticleOPF Webinar "Digital Preservation at your command, part II" available as video
Last week I had the honour to host the OPF Webinar "Digital Preservation at your command, part II".During the Webinar attendees were shown the difference and/or similarities between the command line...
View ArticleMixing Hadoop and Taverna
As part of our work on test-beds for the SCAPE project we have been investigating the various ways in which a large scale file format migration workflow could be implemented. The underlying...
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On Building a Debian Package of a Ruby Program
Building a Debian Package from a program written in Ruby is not a straightforward task. This post intends to be a step by step practical guide on packaging ruby programs based on the lessons we learned...
View ArticleValidating a migrated image
Part of my work on the SCAPE testbeds involves producing a workflow for the large scale migration of TIFF to JP2 files, with validation. The tests I have run all involve the lossy compression of...
View ArticlePDF Eh? - Another Hackathon Tale
“Characterization” can mean many things (I’m particularly fond, especially in this context, of the OED’s “creation of a fictitious character or fictitious characters”). Back in October Paul Wheatley...
View ArticleChallenges of Dumping/Imaging old IDE Disks
A couple of preservation workflows (such as full system preservation through imaging) or processing in digital forensics depend on reliable hardware-software stacks for identity system disk migrations....
View ArticleRe-tailoring FITS
File Information Tool Set (FITS) is the Harvard Library's "Swiss army knife" for file characterization. Created originally for use with the library's Digital Repository System (DRS), it's been made...
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OPF Webinar - C3PO, an introduction to content profiling
Link: Webinar registrationThis webinar will focus on content profiling and preservation planning. It aims to address the following questions:Why do we need identification and characterisation?How can...
View ArticleEPUB for archival preservation: an update
Last year (2012) the KB released a report on the suitability of the EPUB format for archival preservation. A substantial number of EPUB-related developments have happened since then, and as a result...
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Droid file format identification using Hadoop
The DROID software tool is developed by The National Archives (UK) to perform automated batch identification of file formats by assigning Pronom Unique Identifiers (PUIDs) and MIME types to files. The...
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Digital Preservation Advanced Practitioner Training
Link: Event registrationThis event is now full and registration has been closed. If you would like to be added to the waiting list please email Sharon McMeekin ( sharon@dpconline.org).A training event...
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MIA: Metadata
"Digital preservation is more than the technical preservation of a file ... it is also about providing readers with the context surrounding it to promote authenticity." Principle 2, Requirement 8 of...
View ArticleOpen Research Challenges in Digital Preservation: Call for contributions!
Following the community response to our workshop last year, we want to invite you again to contribute your future preservation challenge!Digital Preservation has emerged as a key challenge for...
View ArticleICC profiles and resolution in JP2: update on 2011 D-Lib paper
It's been more than two years now since I wrote my D-Lib paper JPEG 2000 for Long-term Preservation: JP2 as a Preservation Format. From time to time people ask me about the status of the issues that...
View ArticleDissimilar: an experimental Image Quality Assurance tool
An important part of image file format migration is quality assurance. Various tools can be used such as ImageMagick or Matchbox, but they only provide one metric or are for different use-cases. I...
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SCAPE Training Event - Future Formats First: Building Application...
Link: SCAPE Training - Future Formats First registrationOverviewThis workshop is the second event in the SCAPE project training programme. It will focus on using tools and workflows to carry out...
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SCAPE Planning and Watch: Two years and a bit more
Now that the subproject lead in PW is being transferred from me to Kresimir, it seems a good time to reflect a little on what we have achieved in PW since February 2011 and what is left to do!What did...
View ArticleIdentification of PDF preservation risks: the sequel
*/ Last winter I started a first attempt at identifying preservation risks in PDF files using the Apache Preflight PDF/A validator. This work was later followed up by others in two SPRUCE hackathons in...
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Optimising archival JP2s for the derivation of access copies
*/ Like many other organisations that are using JPEG 2000, the KB produces two representations of most of its digitised content (newspapers, books, periodicals):a high-quality, losslessly compressed...
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