Ross Spencer’s blog

MIA: Metadata

Within my current work responsibilities; attempting to capture as much contextual metadata as possible from shared drives; I want to question how much metadata is actually available for us to capture from digital files in isolation? How do we find it? And how do we access it? – Is it enough to help describe context?

We don’t do migration for the future; we do it for the present: Emulation and an ever so slightly unsatisfying success story

A reminder about obsolescence at Archives New Zealand. Re-evaluating emulation and migration and a digital preservation report card for a file format that simply says: Could. Do. Better.