Perhaps you've heard about the launch of the new #DigitalPreservation for Community Archives Toolkit on #WDPD2024?

We're hosting a 🎉 special #DPClinic 🎉around the toolkit on Monday, Dec 16, 5-6pm UTC, to tell you more about its use by and for community archives working with digital content.

All are welcome, DPC members and non-members alike. We hope to see you there!

Register (for free) at https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/412/-/dpclinic-december-community-archives-toolkit

PRONOM’s dustiest records

by @beet_keeper

Tyler’s recent blog post for the PRONOM Hack-a-thon Week 2024 (my previous for this week), brought up an interesting point about two of PRONOM’s oldest outline records, Real Video Clip (fmt/204) and Real Video (x-fmt/277). How did they end up in PRONOM?

NB. because of the complexity of this post, it may be easier to read in original blog form, than on Mastodon here: https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/pronoms-dustiest-records/

Tyler suggests:

I assume PRONOM originally added these based on MIME types available.

I thought I knew the answer, but it prompted a forensic look at the records to see if what I thought I knew aligned with reality!

#digipres #digitalPreservation #droid #fileFormat #fileFormats #oit #oracle #outsidein #pronom #stellent #wdpd #wdpd2024

simpledroid: completing the loop

by @beet_keeper

It’s nearing the end of 2024 and that must mean a PRONOM hackathon as part of the World Digital Preservation Day (#WDPD2024).

My contribution is a follow-up on my work earlier in the year to produce a valid DROID signature file from Wikidata in wddroidy.

#digipres #DigitalPreservation #DROID #FileFormats #PRONOM #Python #siegfried #SkeletonTestCorpus #WDPD #WDPD2024

@Soleausohigh Fantastic Mastodon handle 👍

Welcome to digipres.club! 🍍💾🍍💾. Lots of #WDPD2024 toots this week. Share your thoughts. Join the conversation. Be at home 🏖️🏡

It's after midnight in the most westerly timezones now, so we bring our #WDPD2024 festivities to a close for another year with one final blog 🌇

Thank you for making this such a wonderful celebration of #digitalpreservation once again. Until next year:

https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/closing-blog-kilbride-wdpd2024