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A Weekend With Nanite

Per Møldrup-Dalum's picture
Well over a year ago I wrote the ”A Year of FITS”(http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2013-01-09-year-fits) blog post describing how we, during the course of 15 months, characterised 400 million of harvested web documents using the File Information Tool Kit (FITS) from Harvard University. I presented the technique and the technical metadata and basically concluded that FITS didn’t fit that kind of heterogenic data in such large amounts. In the time that has passed since that experiment, FITS has been improved in several areas including the code base and organisation of the development and it could be interesting to see how far it has evolved for big data. Still, FITS is not what I will be writing on today. Today I’ll present how we characterised more than 250 million web documents, not in 9 months, but during a weekend.
Submitted by Per Møldrup-Dalum on 28 May 2014 – 9:30pm

Using Kanban at the SCAPE Developer Workshop

Peter May's picture

The SCAPE project is into its final 6 months and with that came our final developer workshop. The main focus of this event was demonstrations, productisation and sustainability, however with everyone together it provided an opportune time to make progress with other SCAPE related activities.

Submitted by Peter May on 12 May 2014 – 8:17am

New Memorandum strengthens global collaboration in digital preservation

Rebecca McGuinness's picture
The Open Planets Foundation (OPF) and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) are delighted to announce a new memorandum of understanding that strengthens their ongoing collaboration to tackle digital preservation challenges.
Signed by OPF Executive Director, Ed Fay, and DPC Executive Director, William Kilbride, at the DPC offices in Glasgow, the MoU commits both two organisations to share knowledge and expertise, deliver joint events, and to support the development
Submitted by Rebecca McGuinness on 6 May 2014 – 10:26pm