The Open Planets Foundation (OPF) addresses core digital preservation challenges by engaging with its members and the community to develop practical and sustainable tools and services to ensure long-term access to digital content.

Identification of PDF preservation risks: the sequel

Dissimilar: an experimental Image Quality Assurance tool

An important part of image file format migration is quality assurance. Various tools can be used such as ImageMagick or Matchbox, but they only provide one metric or are for different use-cases. I wanted to investigate implementation of image comparison algorithms so began investigating.

The final SPRUCE digital preservation Mashup: how we got on

Last week we assembled a group of 30 practitioners and developers and and got down to some practical digital preservation work in what we call a SPRUCE Project Mashup. We’ve run quite a few of them now, but each one is a little different as the agenda is set by our participants and the challenges they bring to the table. I’m always a little nervous running an agile event like this.