I would love to shake the hand of whomever wrote this file format specification. #fileformats #digipres
File format dissection
I uploaded a small revision of my JPEG image format dissection, along with a PDF version - and a minor bugfix.
https://github.com/corkami/pics
Really useful (also humbling) for us Mastodon newbs on the cultural differences between this place and that other place, (via @dzorich) https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/
The UNIX Pipe Card Game -- umm, this is the cutest?? I think I'd definitely incorporate this into learning if I were still teaching digipres students https://punkx.org/unix-pipe-game/
Character encoding
I just discovered that there is a Japanese word for the garbled text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding: Mojibake.
As someone with a diacritic in my name, I am all too used to Mojibaked versions of my family name.
More about it on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake
A proposal for an #OpenGlossary for #digipres
https://digipres.club/@anj/109316060755998883
Additional notes and context from me here:
https://github.com/orgs/digipres/discussions/41#discussioncomment-4106927
If you have GitHub please add your notes & comments. If not, reply on Twitter or Mastodon with permission to translate to the discussion.
If you download your #Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.
So here's a #Python script to convert a Twitter archive to #markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser
Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.
#introduction Hi, I'm Martin. I am an archivist and computer scientist working on digital preservation at the State Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). Before doing digital preservation exclusively I was a sysadmin and before that a "non-digital" archivist. I'm particularly interested in file formats and other tech stuff.
archivist and computer scientist