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OPF Hackathon - A Practical Approach to Preservation Systems

By becky on 19 April 2012 - 10:09am
Link: 
OPF Hackathon event wiki page

The agenda can be seen at: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/KB/Agenda+-+OPF+Hackathon+-+A+Practical+Approach+to+Preservation+Systems 

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Date: 
21 May 2012 to 22 May 2012
Location: 
CINES
950 Rue de Saint-Priest
Montpellier 34000
France
Preservation Topics: 
Preservation Actions
Identification
Characterisation
Preservation Strategies
Preservation Risks
Format Registry
Representation Information
Tools
Open Planets Foundation
Event Types: 
Hackathon

Project to Identify files with linked dependencies

By ecochrane on 21 November 2011 - 4:23am

 Many office suites and other applications allow the embedding of information in them via a link to another file. The use of linked spreadsheets is common amonst data intensive agencies and large documents are often managed through linking multiple office documents to form a single final product. 

Future Perfect 2012

By ecochrane on 9 November 2011 - 8:32pm
Link: 
Future Perfect 2012 Conference

The draft programme for Future Perfect 2012 is now available online!

http://bit.ly/uVsvDl

The theme of Future Perfect 2012 - Digital Preservation by Design - seeks to stimulate discussion about how, when and why influencing the design of systems can support digital preservation and ultimately ensure that today’s information is available tomorrow.  Future Perfect 2012 will be a two day conference featuring many exciting international speakers.

Our audience will hear presentations from:

Date: 
26 March 2012 to 27 March 2012
Location: 
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Wellington
New Zealand
Preservation Topics: 
Format Registry
Preservation Actions
Identification
Bit rot
Preservation Strategies
Normalisation
Characterisation
Representation Information
Corpora
Emulation
Migration
Tools
Preservation Risks
Event Types: 
Conference

Digital Preservation Summit: workshop on format registries

By Bill Roberts on 26 October 2011 - 2:27pm

At the Goportis Digital Preservation Summit in Hamburg last week, I had the pleasure on behalf of the Open Planets Foundation of chairing a very productive workshop on the 'Format Registry Ecosystem'.

I had the chance to present the recent work of the OPF and National Archives of the Netherlands work in this area (see my several previous posts on this blog), but the bulk of our time was spent in a group discussion of the most pressing issues and how we should solve them.

Evaluation of identification tools: first results from SCAPE

By johan on 21 September 2011 - 1:40pm

As I already briefly mentioned in a previous blog post, one of the objectives of the SCAPE project is to develop an architecture that will enable large scale characterisation of digital file objects. As a first step, we are evaluating existing characterisation tools. The overall aim of this work is twofold.

A Format Registry for SCAPE

By andy jackson on 11 August 2011 - 8:27pm

In my previous post on formats, I ended up leaning towards a wait-and-see approach to format registry design. Unfortunately, I don't really have that luxury. The SCAPE project needs to collect more format information to assist preservation planning and other processes. We even have some effort available to help build and/or fill a registry. But which registry should we try fill?

PRONOM discussion on Chris Rusbridge's blog

By Bill Roberts on 9 August 2011 - 10:33am

Chris Rusbridge recently kicked off a discussion about where to find information about some old file formats - he was finding it very difficult to find what he needed.

Readers of this blog might find his article interesting:

http://unsustainableideas.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/so-what-was-that-twitter-rant-against-pronom-all-about/

Registry guidelines: the answers

By Bill Roberts on 21 July 2011 - 2:03pm

OK, not really the answers, just more questions!  But a few weeks back I sent round a draft of a registry guidelines document, asking for feedback.  I had included in that document a list of questions that we needed to consider and this post presents some of the answers I received, plus some answers I have tried to supply myself.  

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