➺ Ashley Blewer! ❥ @ashley@digipres.club

advice: what would you assign someone as some good primer readings on digital preservation & digital forensics? This is for a current MLIS student who hasn't taken any courses in this area yet. cc @amelish

Disks used to be so large that people hid their backups behind them.

Pretty stoked about this new PAR project:

press release
https://www.artefactual.com/preservation-action-registry-par-research-project-launched/

dev work (mostly defining schemas so far)
https://github.com/JiscRDSS/rdss-par

#digipres #archivematica #par

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TFW when you read a grant narrative that keeps saying terabyte instead of petabyte

tired of the world

Stepping back into the analog world for a bit for adventures in the fourth dimension: the difference between time base, timecode and sync always threw me for loops as a student (and still does sometimes when I try to explain it out loud) so I made a blog post to just link people to instead

https://patchbay.tech/2018/06/11/about-time/

Looks like the iPres 2018 keynote speakers have been posted: https://ipres2018.org/keynote-speakers

FFmpeg is wonderful. Why wasn't I using this sooner? Should've listened to y'all

current mood:

I would say it's similar in the other GLAMMR professions...

On the Mass Extinction of Museum Professionals & Why Trustees Should be Worried - Medium http://nzzl.us/ouJ76Cb via @nuzzel

Hi everyone, I’ve just joined digipres.club and wanted to let you all know, the third No Time To Wait Conference on Open Source / Open formats for a/v digital preservation will be hosted at the BFI in London in late Oct or early Nov. Dates being finalised today, announcement soon...

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