SCAPE is proud to look back at another successful project year. During the third year the team produced many new tools, e.g. ToMaR, a tool...
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Whenever you run into the situation that you have got used to a command line tool and all of a sudden need to apply it...
The SCAPE project is developing solutions to enable the processing of very large data sets with a focus on long-term preservation. One of the application...
Who are you? My name is Pavel Smrz. I work as an associate professor at the Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology (BUT)...
Mentioned in various forums before, but not necessarily expanded upon within this community, the Nailgun client/server application removes the overhead of starting the Java Virtual Machine when running a Java application consecutive times. Given a large majority of the programs in the digital preservation toolkit are written in this programming language we should consider all of the optimizations that we can find. Nailgun enables us to reach a significant improvement in performance, and should be considered in future digital preservation workflows, if it is not being used already. This blog outlines the current performance issues with Java and provides an overview of how to get Nailgun up and running; giving baseline statistics as it goes to illuminate the descriptions provided.
Like a garden needs watering, it sometimes needs a little weeding too. I think that's where we've been recently with the Open Planets Foundation, Format Corpus on GitHub. In this blog I describe how I've remixed it to enable it to be used more flexibly moving forward. Hopefully leaving it in a position to be forked and consumed again by the wider digital preservation community.