Assessing file format risks: searching for Bigfoot?
Last week someone pointed my attention to a recent iPres paper by Roman Graf and Sergiu Gordea titled "A Risk Analysis of File Formats for...
Last week someone pointed my attention to a recent iPres paper by Roman Graf and Sergiu Gordea titled "A Risk Analysis of File Formats for...
Introduction Government departments are connecting their information systems to the e-Depot of the National Archives of the Netherlands (NANETH). The digital archival materials (information objects)...
OPF have launched a new interest group for file format discussions and collaboration. The first deliverable is an international comparison of recommended file formats for...
The purpose of this post is to give a brief introduction to creating, editing and submitting format signatures (or ‘magic‘ entries) for the well-known File...
Note: This post includes hexadecimal numbering to represent byte values. Where appropriate hex values are preceded with ‘0x’, e.g. 0xA1B2. Last week was notably busy from a PRONOM contribution...
Inspired by Jenny Micham’s blog post about developing her first file format signature, I thought it would be fun to take a crack at creating...