On September 8 the SCAPE/ APARSEN workshop Digital Preservation Sustainability on the EU Level is held at London City University in connection with the DL2014...
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The OPF is holding a PDF event in Hamburg on 1st-2nd September 2014 where we'll be taking an in-depth look at the PDF format, its...
bwFLA's Emulation-as-a-Service makes emulation widely available for non-experts and could prove emulation as a valuable tool in digital preservation workflows. Providing these emulation services to access preserved and archived digital objects poses further challenges to data management. Digital artifacts are usually stored and maintained in dedicated repositories and object owners want to – or are required to – stay in control over their intellectual property. This article discusses the problem of managing virtual images, i.e. virtual harddisks bootable by an emulator, and derivatives thereof but the solution proposed can be applied to any digital artifact.
We have just set up a vagrant environment for C3PO. It starts a headless vm where the C3PO related functionalities (Mongodb, Play, a downloadable commandline jar) are managable from the host's browser. Further, the vm itself has all relevant processes configured at start-up independently from vagrant, so it can be, once created, downloaded and used as a stand-alone C3PO vm. We think this could be a scenario applicable to other SCAPE projects as well. The following is a summary of the ideas we've had and the experiences we've made.
Following on from my previous brief post announcing the beta release of the CSV Validator, http://www.staging.openpreservation.org/blogs/2014-03-21-csv-validator-beta-releases, today we've made the formal version 1.0 release of the...
I would like to draw your attention to the new QA tool for finger detection on scans: https://github.com/openplanets/finger-detection-tool. This tool was developed by AIT in...