OPF Blog: Is obsolescence overrated?
A new OPF blog entry: Is obsolescence overrated?. Reproduced below...
Posted: 2010-12-22
A new OPF blog entry: Is obsolescence overrated?. Reproduced below...
Posted: 2010-12-22
Thanks to our web archiving team (who lead the uk web archive project), I was given a day of training on using Hadoop today. I was already fairly familiar with the map-reduce and HDFS architecture, but I’d not had a chance to actually develop a map-reduce task or run one on a real cluster with some real data. Today’s training gave me that chance, and I’m really pleased the results…
Posted: 2010-12-14
A new OPF blog entry: Breaking Down The Format Registry. Reproduced below the fold.
Posted: 2010-12-09
A new OPF blog entry: In the room. Reproduced below...
Posted: 2010-11-17
As well as blogging about digital preservation here, I’ve also got a blog on the Open Planets Foundation website where I’ll post about OPF issues. I’ve just posted my first blog entry there: Community and code. Reproduced below the fold.
Posted: 2010-08-20
I don’t know if it was coincidence, or by design, but the latest issue of the International Journal of Digital Curation contains two very similar articles. One is from the Planets Project, is co-authored by me, and is called A Framework for Distributed Preservation Workflows. The other is called An Emergent Micro-Services Approach to Digital Curation Infrastructure, and is by Stephen Abrams et al from CDL. These two separate papers describe two approaches to building preservation systems, which despite having been developed independently appear to be converging towards a single, consistent design.
Posted: 2010-07-27Digital Preservation Lessons Learned 7
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