The next OPF Hackathon - A Practical Approach to Preservation Systems - will focus on preservation workflows and systems. It will consider a large number of widely available tools that are being used both by the community and in industry.
The agenda can be seen at: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/KB/Agenda+-+OPF+Hackathon+-+A+Practical+Approach+to+Preservation+Systems
Registration opening soon...
This will be my shortest blog post ever. Following up on my previous blog post on a prototype JP2 validator and properties extractor (jpylyzer), there is now a comprehensive User Manual of the tool. Just follow the link below and get the PDF file that is listed under 'Download Packages':
A few months ago I wrote a blog post on a simple JP2 file structure checker. This led to some interesting online discussions on JP2 validation. Some people asked me about the feasibility of expanding the tool to a full-fledged JP2 validator. Despite some initial reservations, I eventually decided to dedicate a couple of weeks to writing a rough prototype.
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.
The draft programme for Future Perfect 2012 is now available online!
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:
Emulation requires disk images to be provided and used for the main hard drive of emulated computers.
This tool needs some explanation of how it came about. At Nationaal Archief we were faced with various bottlenecks at ingest for our digital repository (which we call e-Depot). Characterization was one of them and when the OPF released the first prototype of FIDO we happily jumped on board for its development. Seeing the potential for significant speed increases, Nationaal Archief put in a substantial amount of work - freeing me for development of FIDO, leading to a wrapped Java version.
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.
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.