Open Planets Foundation

Before Easter we planned to do a correctness benchmark for Audio Migration QA, specifically targeting the new tool xcorrSound waveform-compare, see http://openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2012-07-09-xcorrsound-waveform-compare-new-audio-quality-assurance-tool.

We have been evaluating the use of the latest Fedora Commons, version 3.6.2, as a test repository. Having followed the straightforward installation process we were left with a repository with one preconfigured user – fedoraAdmin.

There are two APIs – API-A for access and API-M for management. For our test instance API-A was configured on installation to require a log in, but it can be configured to require no log in. It appeared that whilst the REST API for API-A was restricted, the SOAP API for API-A was not, this was corrected by using the example policy, below. Investigations of how to configure multiple users are also detailed.

Tika File Mime Type Identification and the Importance of Metadata

An evaluation was recently carried out to determine how well Apache Tika was able to identify the mime types of a corpus of test files, described in the ‘Data Set’ section. The purpose of the evaluation was to determine:

1. if the performance* of Tika has changed between versions 1.0 and the current version, 1.3 and,

As you may or may not know, C3PO is a content profiling tool for preservation analysis.

This is my first, long overdue blog post since starting my new role as Software Configuration Manager for OPF at the start of the year. Truth be told that between the SCAPE end of year and review, a weeks holiday, and working out what to do it doesn’t feel like four months since I started. I’m the OPF’s first full time technical team member and will be dividing my time between: