Tempted to spike a quick CloneCD audit tool for archives… something that gives you recommendations on how likely data in it is to be significant. For example, whether the subcode data is necessary or contains any interesting content.
Started on this tonight with a basic subcode data analyzer. If this is something you’d find useful, as an individual or archives, let me know what kinds of features you’d want!
I’m thinking of having a report generator in human-readable and JSON/YAML formats. It could document what type of significant properties it’s found, and provide preservation recommendations - for example, whether subcode data is crucial or unimportant.
On the one hand, what I've done so far isn't super complex, but on the other hand it takes domain knowledge about subcode data and that's not so common these days.
Please invite me to your conference to talk about CD-ROM.
(This is a joke but also not a joke, please actually *do* invite me to your conference to talk about CD-ROM.)