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OPF Webinar – From the Preservation Toolkit: JHOVE2

This webinar will give an overview of JHOVE2, the free and open-source tool for characterizing digital objects. It will cover the motivation for creating a second-generation version of JHOVE some of the new features of the tool, including the ability to perform not just format identification, validation, and feature extraction, but also assessment (a policy-based determination of the acceptability of a format instance, regardless of its validation). It will discuss JHOVE2’s more sophisticated data model of a format instance, embracing complex digital objects that can be composed of more than one file, each of a possibly different format. It will provide pointers on JHOVE2’s setup and use. It will briefly introduce the tool’s architecture, and ways in which it has been and can continue to be extended to include more formats, building on existing libraries and tools.

There are twenty-five places available on a first come, first serve basis.

Date: Friday 31 Janaury
Time: 09:00 EST / 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CET
Duration: 1 hour
Session Lead: Sheila Morrissey, Portico

Date: 
31 January 2014
Event Types: 
Webinar
Link: 
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SCAPE Training – Preserving Your Preservation Tools

Overview

Learning to Think Like a Package Maintainer

Lots of great digital preservation applications and services exist, however very few are actively maintained and thus preserved! This is a big problem! By introducing the steps to develop these and engage the support of the community, this training course looks at what can be done to improve this situation. Specifically, this training course looks at how to prepare packages for submission into the very heart of many digital environments; the operating system and directly associated “app-stores”. Attendees will be given hands-on experience with developing and maintaining packages rather than software and key differences will be discussed and evaluated. Better preservation of preservation tools, means better preservation our digital history.

Learning Outcomes (by the end of the training event the attendees will be able to):

  1. Understand the complexities of package management and distinguish between the different practices relating to both package objectives and chosen programming language.
  2. Be able to carry out advanced package management operations in order to critically appraise current packages and propose changes.
  3. Understand the importance of clearly defined versioning and licenses and the role of clear documentation and examples.
  4. Apply best practice techniques in order to create a simple package suitable for long term maintenance.
  5. Evaluate a number of options for managing package configuration and behavior relating to package installation, removal, upgrade and re-installation.
  6. Analyse opportunities for automating package management and releases, maintaining a clear focus on the user and not the developer.
  7. Critically evaluate opportunities to generalise package management to allow the easy building and maintenance of packages on multiple platforms.
  8. Assess the potential to apply package management techniques in your own environment.

Delegates will receive a certificate of attendance for the training course.

The agenda can be seen here: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/Agenda+-+Preserving+Your+Preservation+Tools.

Registration is now open! https://scape-preserving-tools.eventbrite.co.uk

Date: 
26 March 2014 to 27 March 2014
Event Types: 
Workshops & Training
Link: 
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