I'm back to being extremely on the internet and I hope I can use this space for more than a subtweet zone
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
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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
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
c/o @MediaArea @mcnatch, et al:
Announcing "No Time to Wait: Rough Consensus and Running Archives", a free conference on #openmedia, #openstandards & #audiovisualpreservation hosted by @MediaArea_Net and @BFI. Join us October 25 & 26, 2018 in London. More at mediaarea.net/NoTimeToWait3.
@despens do you have links to the sites you mentioned at your EAW talk? was trying to remember the URL of the google search one after seeing @waharnum 's speaking-library-searches site http://libraryvoices.alanharnum.ca/
@despens omg your bio
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...
TIL Vint Cerf spends his free time leaving reviews about books on Amazon https://smile.amazon.com/Open-Standards-Digital-Age-Enterprise/dp/1107612047/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523835309&sr=8-1&keywords=Open+Standards+and+the+Digital+Age https://digipres.club/media/BkHHBg5haXJJSJq0084
Internet Girlfriend Club Volume 7 (Special time-crunch edition) is la-la-la-live! 📟 😽 💃 💖http://internetgirlfriend.club/
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