Roughly weekly/monthly news and opinions from the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Head of Research and Practice, Paul Wheatley. Opinions are the opinions of Paul and those featured. Not the DPC. They’re just opinions, ok? Just because the blog has moved to the official DPC website does not mean this isn't just a load of opinions. Back issues are here.
Jen joins in with the format profile sharing:
*Finally* I've managed to do a bit of #droid profiling work on our digital archive at @UoYBorthwick https://t.co/H3AJtqcpem
— Jenny Mitcham (@Jenny_Mitcham) February 13, 2017
Quite possibly the coolest looking digital archive ever. Not quite sure why the #digipres community didn't latch onto this one very much:
National archive for nuclear industry opens in Wick #History #archives https://t.co/nRMo8Grehc
— Valmay Young (@valmayuk) February 14, 2017
Expect more veraPDF goodness coming to a validation workflow near you soon:
Delighted to announce we have been awarded the contract for the #PREFORMA testing phase! #opensource #digipres https://t.co/QtUKgmWFlM
— veraPDF (@_veraPDF) February 17, 2017
New Archives Hub website:
The Website for the New Archives Hub https://t.co/anhXoNFKZm - Pat on the back to all involved in this redesign!
— Jenny Mitcham (@Jenny_Mitcham) February 17, 2017
Excellent blog post from DNT on the nature and language of embedding digipres:
#DPCblogs Why digital preservation is or isn’t business as usual https://t.co/z7uq2jnqzh #digipres #archives
— DPC Chatter (@dpc_chat) February 17, 2017
It would be great to see a concerted effort to take on format ID of text based formats, and dip into some of the possible strategies for taking this on. Really feels like the right time to focus on this (see recent work from Leeds and Sheffield). Looking forward to an upcoming report from OPF on this topic as well:
It feels like now is the time to pull together a proper R&D effort to ID text based file formats. Who is up for some of that? #dpc #IDCC17
— Paul Wheatley (@prwheatley) February 21, 2017
Very sad. When the lawyers decide to keep nothing of our cultural history:
The video game industry: Shredding its history, one company at a time https://t.co/hbGPCAt4g2
— Benj Edwards (@benjedwards) February 13, 2017
Here's something a bit more positive (in English here):
Keeping the #videogames playable: Game On! update looks at emulation as a means to an end: https://t.co/R9NjRHfj40 [NL] #digipres #radarsoft pic.twitter.com/JhgDdtynHj
— Sound and Vision R&D (@benglabs) February 22, 2017
Lots of great blogging on the DPC website, since we relaunched. Here's another essential read:
Great conversation between @jezcope and @mkdDCC on software preservation within a RDM context #digipres #IDCC17 https://t.co/oqzF8WoJoz
— Paul Wheatley (@prwheatley) February 21, 2017
Always worth a reminder - share your weird files on the OPF Format Corpus:
Now available for your perusalment in the @openpreserve format corpus because, why not: https://t.co/v9biWrjVbE https://t.co/Owhq6BfHvg
— Johan van der Knijff (@bitsgalore) February 21, 2017
A quick bump for what should be a very informative event and hot topic for many in the digipres world at the moment:
We've just published the full prog for our #DPC Briefing Day Procuring Digital Preservation, 21 Mar and it's great!https://t.co/O6t6VMfxqv
— Sarah Middleton (@Sarah_DPC) February 22, 2017
This is a longer blog post read interviewing award winner Dave Rice. Do not miss the discussion of digipres engagement on standards. Aspiring practitioners should also take in the reflections on career development (amongst other things) in the second half:
.@dericed, an @NDSA2 Innovation Award winner, talks w/us about collaboration, openness & preservation! More here: https://t.co/k5CrpXT2yd
— NDSA (@NDSA2) February 22, 2017
Last week I included this comment on vendor induced obsolescence. Here's a look at one of the other factors in what we keep: value over time (thanks Chris):
.@prwheatley I think you might like this TOP article. Not about DP as such, but about role of value in preservation. https://t.co/ZCw8vxSj2v
— Chris Rusbridge (@carusb) February 18, 2017
It's wrap up time. Careful now (open the tweet to contribute):
It's #idcc17 caption competition with @WilliamKilbride and @odiled pic.twitter.com/hWkRTxuTad
— William Kilbride (@WilliamKilbride) February 21, 2017
Interesting discussion between Shira and Chris, comparing #digipres maturity in the US and Europe (open the tweet to see the follow up discussion):
Jesus. This series is a stark reminder of how far ahead Europe is when it comes to #digitalpreservation Seriously. It's light years https://t.co/WJO4xSqN51
— Shira Peltzman (@shirapeltzman) February 8, 2017
Awesome stickers:
I *love* these! Hopefully you're bringing some to Archivematica Camp York! :-) https://t.co/b3hm7RVcZ3
— Jenny Mitcham (@Jenny_Mitcham) February 22, 2017
Here's a final thought from Jen:
Great quote in this article - "Data matures like wine, applications like fish" #IDCC17 https://t.co/K598vBw43n
— Jenny Mitcham (@Jenny_Mitcham) February 21, 2017
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