SPRUCE Hackathon Leeds: extending C3PO to support Apache Tika
The SPRUCE Unified Characterisation Hackathon in Leeds brought together a group of developers to discuss the digital preservation community’s approach to characterisation and to consolidate and improve existing toolsets.
Looking back at the second project year of SCAPE
The second project year of the integrated research project SCAPE has just finished. It is time to look back at the most interesting developments and significant results of this period.
Challenges of Dumping/Imaging old IDE Disks
A couple of preservation workflows (such as full system preservation through imaging) or processing in digital forensics depend on reliable hardware-software stacks f
Interview with a SCAPEr – Catherine Jones
Who are you?
I am Catherine Jones. I am an Information Systems Project Manager in the Scientific Computing Department at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in the UK.
bwFLA Demo – Emulation as a Service (EaaS) and Digital Art Curation
Finally, a first semi-public demo instance is available to the OPF community.
Digital Forensics and Emulation for Preservationista
Many of the tools and practises developed for the digital forensics field can be integrated into digital preservation techniques. This is particularly true regarding:
- processes for securing, analysing, and appraising material prior to ingest into a repository or digital archive.
- donated personal digital archives, where physical hardware and media are acquired, rather than digital content.
Digital Forensic best practises deal with: