In a recent blog post, Gary McGath, JHOVE’s former developer and maintainer, questioned whether JHOVE maintenance had ceased. While this is not the case, he...
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The latest version of siegfried, 1.5.0, has just been released. The big change is support for a second identifier type, freedesktop.org’s Shared MIME-Info specification.
For anyone dealing with a relatively small number of records, compared to say an internet or data archive, a reasonable process for ingest of material...
At my workplace, we write a lot of small scripts to encode preservation workflows. These scripts pipeline simple actions like munging metadata, moving files about, and calling other tools...
The British Library’s Digital Preservation Team is sometimes asked to help resolve the preservation planning challenges of Library colleagues and other organisations. This post describes...
Flashback is a proof of concept project run by the British Library’s Digital Preservation Team. The project is examining specific emulation and migration solutions as...