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Love how #COPTR helps us framing what #digipres is, in practice, without elaborating dangerous definitions...

"The scope is a broad interpretation of the term "digital preservation”. In other words, if a tool is useful in performing a digital preservation function such as those described in the OAIS model or the DCC lifecycle model, then it's within scope of this registry. In scope: Characterisation, visualisation, rendering, migration, storage, fixity, access, delivery, search, web archiving"

Bertrand Caron Jan 26

In the #COPTR relaunch session!

"The Community-Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR) is a place to find tools to try, and workflows to learn from, to help you take care of your digital collections"

#digipres

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Bertrand Caron Oct 10

@anj @mickylindlar thanks for spotting that Andy, we'll get it corrected!

Btw, I see a potential connection between CPPs and "activities" / "capabilities" that you identified for #COPTR... I don't know how both could work together though!

Bertrand Caron Sep 5, 2025

New addition to #COPTR: TweakPNG, a tool to inspect the internal structure of a #PNG, i.e., the chunks, and their content.

https://coptr.digipres.org/TweakPNG

The tool is able to return a validity status. You can also add chunks and import an ICC profile.

Unfortunately, the tools runs only on Windows...

(Suggested by @Ange in his video on PNG basics)

#digipres

TweakPNG - COPTR

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Andy Jackson Mar 22, 2025

@itgrrl Hi! We're currently wondering how to fix up #COPTR (eg https://github.com/orgs/digipres/discussions/53) - if you have any ideas or feedback please do let us/me know. Thank you!

Call for ideas and proposals for the future of COPTR & COW · digipres · Discussion #53

The Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR) is not sustainable in it's current form, and we need a plan for the future. On a technical level, the shift to building on the Semanti...

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itgrrl

is looking to #GetFediHired!Mar 22, 2025

I'm working on enabling the #DigiPres parts of our org by making some of the #COPTR Tool Grid apps available securely in a managed #Windows environment - first cab off the rank is a #Java app with bundled #JRE, which won't play well with our env 😕

does anyone have experience using #maven & #jpackage as part of a build pipeline to create OS-native installers? my short-term target is a Windows MSI, but once that's in place the same pipeline should be able to spit out native installers for macOS (which we also use) & Linux (which we don't - yet 😈)

I'm at the point where I'm about to clone the repo & start tinkering 😫 but would much rather re-use something already built than figure it out from docs & example code...

#boost4reach pls 🙏

#GLAM
#ausGLAM

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#Digital ⚓️ #Vagabond 🦈Jan 11, 2025

Alas, and #COPTR but different reasons... (I don't know if there was an announcement somewhere)

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Bertrand Caron Oct 30, 2024

@anj @aarbrk OK, thank you Andy! I have no experience with WARCs, so I looked in #COPTR and only warctools is mentioned. Maybe warcio should be added!

Bertrand Caron Sep 18, 2024

#Archivematica (so strange the org has no presence on Mastodon, while being so involved into open source) has developed a METS-validator (https://github.com/artefactual-labs/mets-validator/).

The reason why I have not been aware of it is because... it has no #COPTR entry. (unlike METS Flask).

Conclusion: developers, please create entries in COPTR, it's become the reference for DP tools.

#iPRES2024