Ideas For Preservation Tools & Services

Digipres service outline

  • cloud characterisation/forensics
  • tool tests and tracking
  • training resources - online courses in particular
  • preservation FS
  • überconverter
  • Gatherer - suck format/software association data out of operating systems and publish it.

UberConverter

http://docs.deis.io/en/latest/

A Safer Shell

Idea of forking a GitBash distribution (or similar) that is configured by default to be as safe as possible.

  • CmdUtils recycle command installed.
  • rm aliased to interactive mode.
  • Can the same be done for cp and mv when overwrites are about to happen?

Mapping Digital Preservation Space

  • Big migration matrix plot w no of tools
  • Gap Analysis v services spine chart
  • Identity tool fails Start with format corpus
  • Parse sig files too.
  • Build a map.
  • Create an analysis/map-maker application folder?
  • Import foreg into it, setting up sync with PRONOM.
  • Aim to make the Atlas instead of sync to Drupal.

Training

Registry Game

  • Social pressures plus…
  • reward, competitions, achievements, progress tracking, challenges…
  • Look at stack overflow and steal…
  • Badges:
  • {Format [Master} Minter]
  • Tweaker (lots of small changes)
  • Perfectionist (retweaking)
  • Grammartron
  • Regex Ninja or Magic Ninja
  • Reviewer? Mentor? Teacher?
  • Shotgun! Whoever is always there first, reviewing.
  • Uploader, Test Data Provider
  • Firestarter, first of an edit flurry
  • Schema Schemer
  • Addict. Most visits.
  • Public timeline of achievement
  • Ranking etc

The Rosetta Corpus/Time Capsule

The Bootstraps -Enough to parse other docs, rather than every possible format. -Includes multiple codes as well as specifications. -ASCII, then more… -Documents and images, types, multiple formats.

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Keeping Codes
by Andrew N. Jackson
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