From its inception it has been part of the OPF's vision that meaningful discussions around Digital Preservation problems are key to finding solutions, tools and ultimately improving digital preservation practices.
Already a couple of weeks ago we had a hackathon in Cologne. Hospitality and location of the University of Cologne contributed a lot to the success of this event. Thanks to Manfred Thaller and Lisa Rau everything was perfectly organized. Thanks a lot Manfred and Lisa!
With the experience of previous hack-events (the first OPF hackathon and the AQUA events), OPF hackathons are shaping themselves according to what OPF is all about.
Over the last weeks at several events Paul Wheatley of the British Library showed examples of bit rot in an image collection of the BL.
Planets did lots of R&D into preservation and long term access and provided background and breakthrough thinking on many of the technical challenges.
But Paul's tenacity on this subject bit rot triggered me to open a Problem, Requirement, Use Case sequence in the "what we need" section of the OPF wiki.
