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?
Blogs
The second year review of the FP7 Collaborative project SCAPE took place on April 18-19, 2013 at the AIT office in Vienna. As I have...
As I have previously blogged, our community's attempts to share knowledge and experience of digital preservation tools has been a triumph of good-willed enthusiam over...
The DROID software tool is developed by The National Archives (UK) to perform automated batch identification of file formats by assigning Pronom Unique Identifiers (PUIDs)...
Last year (2012) the KB released a report on the suitability of the EPUB format for archival preservation. A substantial number of EPUB-related developments have...
Before Easter we planned to do a correctness benchmark for Audio Migration QA, specifically targeting the new tool xcorrSound waveform-compare, see https://staging.openpreservation.org/blogs/2012-07-09-xcorrsound-waveform-compare-new-audio-quality-assurance-tool. The migration tool...