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digital-curation

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Some folks at LC and CDL are trying to kick-start a new public discussion list for talking about digital curation in its many guises: repositories, tools, standards, techniques, practices, etc. The intuition being that there is a social component to the problems of digital preservation and repository interoperability.
Of course NDIIPP (the arena for the [...]

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bagit and .deb

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

I’m just now (OK I’m slow) marveling at how similar BagIt turned out to be to the Debian Package Format. Given some of the folks involved, this synchronicity isn’t too surprising.
Both .deb and BagIt use a directory ‘data’ for bundling the files in the package (well .deb has it as a compressed file data.tar.gz). [...]

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BagIt

Friday, June 6, 2008

One little bit of goodness that has percolated out from my group at $work in collaboration with the California Digital Library is the BagIt spec (more readable version). BagIt is an IETF RFC for bundling up files for transfer over the network, or for shipping on physical media. Just yesterday a little article about BagIt [...]

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