What is the scientific data STFC is contributing to SCAPE? The Science and Technology Facilities Council, based in the UK, provides large scale scientific facilites...
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The xcorrSound tool package is being developed as part of the SCAPE Preservation Components: Quality Assurance work package. The tool compares sound waves and is...
As Paul has already noted, there are a a number of new efforts to crowdsource format information. Superficially, this might look like a duplication of effort, but I don't think that needs to be the case. In fact I think they could fit together rather neatly, and combine to produce exactly the kind of diversity of registries that we need. Together, they could preserve the representation information we need by operating at three distinct levels, each more sophisticated than the last...
The file format registry related announcements in recent days have prompted some excellent discussion between my good colleagues, Andy Jackson, Chris Rusbridge and Andrew Wilson....
In the last two days, two very different approaches to the digital preservation "file format problem" have been announced and discussed. Jason Scott of the...
Currently the scientific and R&D communities are continuously talking about data and dataset collection and reuse. Core to these aspects is archiving and preserving this...