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simplicity and digital preservation, sorta

Friday, August 27, 2010

Over on the Digital Curation discussion list Erik Hetzner of the California Digital Library raised the topic of simplicity as it relates to digital preservation, and specifically to CDL’s notion of Curation Microservices. He referenced a recent bit of writing by Martin Odersky (the creator of Scala) with the title Simple or Complicated. In one [...]

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version control and digital curation

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

For some time now I have been meaning to write about some of the issues related to version control in repositories as they relate to some projects going on at $work. Most repository systems have a requirement to maintain original data as submitted. But as we all know this content often changes over time–sometimes immediately. [...]

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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

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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