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Digital Archiving at the University of York: September 2014
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Wednesday, 24 September 2014. To crop or not to crop? Preparing images for page turning applications. How do you prepare digital images of physical archive volumes for display within a web-based page turning application? I thought this was going to be a fairly straight forward question when I was faced with it a couple of months ago. I soon realised that there are many ways of approaching this problem and few standard answers. When photographing material from ...
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: December 2014
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Thursday, 18 December 2014. Plugging the gaps: Linking Arkivum with Archivematica. In September this year, Arkivum. Who develop and support the Open Source software Archivematica. Announced that they were collaborating. On a digital preservation system. This is a piece of work that myself and colleagues at the University of York were very pleased to be able to fund. OAIS Functional Entities ( CCSDS 2002. From the start we have favoured a modular approach to a ...
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: July 2014
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Monday, 21 July 2014. How much data can you afford to lose? 8220;How often should I back up my data? 8221; is a question I am sometimes asked. There are several answers to this. A bee - one of the rescued digital images. In the fast-paced digital world that we live, backing up our data is often seen as an additional administrative overhead that can fall to the bottom of our overflowing to do list. A makeshift dolls house - another rescued digital image. This w...
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: November 2014
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Friday, 7 November 2014. A non-archivist's perspective on cataloguing born digital archives. As blogged in my previous post. Earlier this week I attended an ARA Section for Archives and Technology. Event on Born Digital Cataloguing. And also had the opportunity to talk about some of the Borthwick's current work in this area. The Archaeology Data Service. A digital archivist may speak a different language to traditional archivists,. But we can work around this.
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: Improving RDM workflows with Archivematica
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Friday, 17 July 2015. Improving RDM workflows with Archivematica. In a previous post we promised diagrams to help answer the 'How? Of the 'Filling the Digital Preservation Gap' project. In answer to this, here is a guest post by Julie Allinson, Manager of Digital York, who looks after all things Library and Archives IT. Researcher enters dataset metadata into PURE. Library staff check and verify the metadata, and record extra information as needed. DOI is upda...
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: February 2015
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Wednesday, 18 February 2015. Digital preservation hits the headlines. It is not often that stories directly related to my profession make front page news, so it was with mixed feelings that I read following headline on the front of the Guardian this weekend:. Digital is decaying. The future may have to be print". To give us their archives in their original form. If the files are born digital we would like to receive and archive the digital files. Print...IDCC)...
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Mad File Format Science. File formats, file validation, archival software, and other weird things. About Mad File Format Science. Video courses and YouTube videos. JavaScript risk in SVG images. Google crossposting →. Sloppy reporting of image file hazards. November 26, 2016. Comments Off on Sloppy reporting of image file hazards. First question: What kind of image files are at risk? It’s certainly a bad idea to execute a JS or HTA file of unknown origin on your computer, along with many other exec...
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Mad File Format Science. File formats, file validation, archival software, and other weird things. About Mad File Format Science. Video courses and YouTube videos. The “Imagegate” rumor mill goes wild. November 29, 2016. Comments Off on The “Imagegate” rumor mill goes wild. Looking very closely at the video which accompanies the Check Point article. None of the articles I’ve seen question why Check Point tipped them off in this way or note the inconsistencies in the article and the video. None ...More on...
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: March 2015
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Monday, 2 March 2015. Pitching for Archivematica at Research Data Spring. It was with trepidation that I attended the Research Data Spring sandpit last week. A sandpit has childhood associations with lazy long summers, but reading more about the format of the event it sounded more like an episode of Dragon’s Den. The ‘sandpit’ event was held at Birmingham’s Aston University campus. And we were at least rewarded with summer beach weather on the second day.
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: June 2015
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Tuesday, 9 June 2015. The second meeting of the UK Archivematica group. Unaffected by the threatened rail strike and predicted thundery showers, the 2. UK Archivematica meeting went ahead at the Tate Britain in London last week. Donuts at J.Co. By Masked Card on Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. For more infomation on where we are with this work. Where having an inventory of the file formats in your archive comes in quite early at level 2. If you don’t know w...I went ...
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