Joe Carrano @joe@digipres.club
Digital Archivist at MIT Libraries
Joined Jan 2018
Joe Carrano
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I made a Thing! It’s called the Ident-O-Matic and it can run multiple format identification tools over a file for you https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/digipresnet/guide-to-format-id/master?urlpath=/apps/01-Ident-O-Matic.ipynb
An example of the problem with crowdsourced tagging with no review. My favorite tag is "CHECK OUT MY SOUNDCLOUD FAM ITS FIRE AF MAN YOULL BURN YOUR HANDS IF YOU TOUCH IT (LIT AF) http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/?s=hee-nc-57001#hee-nc-57001
I didn't realize how many things I would need to change in documentation now that they've renamed my department 😑
Hopefully this is clear enough archival description for when 90% of these terms are no longer in the public vernacular: "an augmented reality (AR) app that visually enhances these murals through a smartphone screen when holding the phone's rear-facing camera lens in front them"
Joe Carrano
boosted
Soft launch of my command line notes, with an introduction and posts on 'ls' and 'tmux':
https://cli.suppliedtitle.org/
Trying to put pressure on myself to keep adding to it. For a while I thought I'd launch with 10 commands, but it turns out I write a lot.
lol @ me thinking a zip drive from Germany would have a US-style power plug, good thing it's modular and I can just swap it out #culturalbias
I'm looking forward to seeing what else comes from this "Future Relics" series https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/neaz3d/airpods-are-a-tragedy
It's weird when someone you forgot existed from high school gets rt'd into your birdsite TL by a random academic you follow
Serendipitous number play: the collection id for our new College of Computing records collection is AC-0652 i.e. 256 backwards
Interesting playback in Archive-It for an Instagram capture. It takes the link in the profile and displays it as the archived link.
Also... "We support and encourage the Archivist to secure other/additional part-time employment elsewhere."
omg this acronym SPAAMFAA http://www.spaamfaa.org/archives/archivist/
Joe Carrano
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One for the floppy crowd - a simple disk imaging workflow tool (basically a simple graphical front-end around dd and ddrescue) https://www.bitsgalore.org/2019/04/10/a-simple-disk-imaging-workflow-tool
Bracing myself should Chomsky's post-MIT archives head my way (birdsite) https://twitter.com/gavinmuellerphd/status/1112786871132749826
Since this is digipres _the club_ perhaps some of y'all will want to present at digipres _the conference_ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> https://ndsa.org/meetings/
Quote in a control file note from 1980 "keep in mind in the distant future we may not have access to machines that play 1/2" reel to reel tape"
haha already see an error 😂
Soft launch of MIT's #webarchiving metadata profile https://github.com/jfcarrano/archives-docs/blob/master/mit_webarch_metaprofile.md
smol bot from birdsite
Looking at a readme that has a typo a couple times saying "Dublin Dore." Future title for Harry Potter metadata element set?
Digital Archivist at MIT Libraries
Joined Jan 2018
