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a new version of siegfried (v1.11.2) is available today. Includes last week's PRONOM update. Get it here: www.itforarchivists.com/siegfried

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Unexpected errors in the BagIt area: alexwlchan.net/2025/bagit-e... BagIt is a packaging format often used in digital archives, and I worked with it quite a lot in a previous job. I wrote up some of the ways a BagIt bag can be invalid, and how I think you should try to validate bags. #digipres

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

In #archives news, for those who missed it over the break, on 30 Dec the first issue of the new open access International Journal of Documentary Heritage was published. It included a piece I wrote with Sarah Demb and Catherine Nichols called 'Against dismemberment': www.ijodh.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

New blog post: Tightrope - an iPRES 2024 trip report https://anjackson.net/2025/01/05/tightrope/ #DigiPres #iPRES2024

submitted 162 days ago • 1 comment

We are conducting a short survey on behalf of the Australian Society of Archivists, as part of a broader review of their Mander Jones Awards. All views welcome! It only takes a couple of minutes www.archivists.org.au/redirect?h=5... #archives #survey

submitted 188 days ago • 1 comment

Very happy to announce that the latest issue of Archives & Manuscripts has just been published—a special issue on research and practice in archives, with myself and @rtropea.bsky.social as guest editors: publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/asa #archives #records #GLAM #research #publication

submitted 195 days ago • 0 comments

the next release of siegfried is almost ready. The main update is a new WASM build, many thanks to Archives New Zealand for sponsoring that work. You can check it out, along with the other changes, in the release candidate: github.com/richardlehan...

submitted 359 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting post on whether MD5 remains suitable for digital forensics: katelynsills.com/law/the-curi...

submitted 530 days ago • 0 comments

siegfried 1.11.0 released, with latest PRONOM, a zip bug fix, and new configuration defaults www.itforarchivists.com/post/sf1110/

submitted 547 days ago • 0 comments

siegfried's 1.11.0 release is almost ready. Release candidate here: github.com/richardlehan...

submitted 550 days ago • 0 comments

hi @ashleyblewer.com do you use the fddXML.zip file from www.loc.gov/preservation... ? Since May, a bunch of fdds between 556 and 588 seem broken in it...

submitted 550 days ago • 2 comments

Is there a #digipres blueskey? Anyway, if there is, we have a job: Digital Preservation Training Officer (full-time, permanent) for our new Digital Preservation Advisory Unit. Deadline 3 Jan. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

submitted 551 days ago • 1 comment