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/
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
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
New logo?
Working on Tldraw identification from @Thorsted
https://coptr.digipres.org/JSONID
I 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?
Do you think custom text file formats are a good idea? or should we just always use JSON/YAML/TOML?
New blog post on The Signal because who doesn't want new/updated format descriptions for the holidays! New entries for APNG and YAML (rhymes with camel and you are welcome for that knowledge drop) and some updates for MXF, PNG and PDF variants (incl PDF/A-4e and PDF/A-4f). #digipres #fileformats
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/12/file-format-flair/?loclr=eadpb
This post is part of the File Format Friends series and provides an overview of the updates to the Sustainability of Digital Formats site since June 2025. It discusses additions and updates to the MXF, PNG, and PDF formats, and new file format descriptions and analysis for YAML and APNG. The post also briefly covers planned work for the coming months.
#Digital ⚓️ #Vagabond 🦈
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