#Digital ⚓️ #Vagabond 🦈A list of properties used by the File Formats listed in the current Siegfried/Wikidata signature file. May be of interest to those creating new records.
Ross SpencerMaintenance begins at creation, so why are we not creating better?
by @beet_keeperThe beats are the same. You work for government, or academia (lets face it, that’s probably where 90% of the work is) you have a deliverable; you save it; you print to PDF; you store it on an institutional repository with some metadata (or Zenodo, OSF or equivalent) and its done.
There’s a small chance that it’s FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) right? It has metadata that can be discovered by an audience looking for it and can be indexed by search engines. The data is potentially accessible if published correctly. They’re not particularly interoperable or easily converted, and PDFs aren’t really designed for reuse, even if tools like Apache Tika help ease the burden of extracting artifacts. It’s just a PDF, why are we even talking about FAIR? There begins a story…
The beats are the same, yet, we work in digital preservation, our backgrounds are in GLAM or software, why do we want to shoot ourselves in the foot? Why are we not using our skills to create better?
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#Archives #BetterPoster #ContinuumModel #createToMaintain #digipres #DigitalArchiving #DigitalContunuity #digitalLiteracy #DigitalPreservation #FAIR #FileFormats #GLAM #informationRecordsMangagement #NationalDigitalStewardshipAlliance #NDSA #OpenAccess #OpenData #PDF #RDM #ResearchDataLifecycle #RIM
Nice surprise, @MediaArea have uploaded a bunch of #NTTW9 videos including mine on JSONID:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMVb3Bc_irc
Check out their YouTube, and also I'd love to hear feedback on JSONID too. Please follow it on GitHub: https://github.com/ffdev-info/jsonid/
No Time To Wait - S09E12 - Day 1 - Introducing JSONID - Ross Spencer
Negative PID SL
ThorstedHot take on digital sovereignty of #fileformats #digipres "A license tells you who owns the software, while the format tells you who owns the data", "Digital sovereignty is not achieved by changing who hosts the software, but by changing the format in which data is encoded." https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/02/document-formats-a-mystery-to-many/
Document formats: a mystery to many - TDF Community Blog
Euro-Office’s announcement – which sees IONOS, Nextcloud and other companies coming together to create a European alternative to office productivity software – has predictably sparked a wave of comments. Most of these focus on the issue of licensing: is the code open source? Who controls the repository? What are the conditions for forking, modifying or implementing it? While these are all valid questions, they fail to address the most important issue. The fact that almost no one is asking the question that matters tells us something significant about how the debate on digital sovereignty has been framed and who benefits from that framing. A licence tells you who owns the software, while the format tells you who owns the data A licence can be renegotiated, modified or updated. The history of FLOSS is full of projects that have changed governance models, divided communities, or changed course under new management. Licence terms are important, but they operate at the level of the software artefact. The native document format operates at a completely different level. It is the encoding level of every document produced, archived, and exchanged by institutions that adopt the software. It is the invisible structure of administrative memory within
Peter B.All in a day's work for #archival #superheroes :
> What the data is that data?
> If only I had #METADATA ! 😁 🍰
Hacking the DROID Signature File for Characterization
by @beet_keeperIdentification of a format can be approached from many angles. Often a magic
number will be used at the beginning of a file. This may be strengthened by the addition of similarly consistent bytes at the end of a file or indeed any part of the bitstream inbetween. Using the sample file format we created last week the magic number to identify it is specified
#Characterization #DigitalPreservation #DROID #FileFormats #LinkedData #MagicNumbers #PRONOM #SPARQL
New logo?
Working on Tldraw identification from @Thorsted
https://coptr.digipres.org/JSONID
BookI got into an almost-argument and I need advice and/or guidance from you dorks (affectionate).
Some doop on Reddit says he rips his CDs into flac files. I said the only thing that flacs increase in this regard is file size; not quality. He insists they sound better as flacs.
So, I ripped two CDs on my l33t h8xor Linux PC. 192kbps mp3s, and flacs. I genuinely could not tell the difference on any of my headphones, including the planar magnetic supernerd audiogasm cans. And I mean it: Zero difference.
Have I fallen into confirmation bias, or is there a real difference?