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DROID Container Signature Files: What they are and how to create them: A template and an example, or few…

This is the second blog inspired by my visit to colleagues at National Library of Australia, last August. The first, discusses a federated approach to better incorporating custom signatures into the PRONOM signature base without modifying PRONOM. The essence of the blog, however, still centers around how the community can create signatures for itself, and […]

By ross-spencer, posted in ross-spencer's Blog

7th Jan 2016  7:15 AM  6741 Reads  No comments

Proposal: GitHub to enable a federated approach to distributing and utilizing custom DROID signatures

Abstract() This blog discusses what we have available in our toolkit for contributing more signatures to PRONOM for the benefit of the digital preservation community. It also discusses the potential issues we need to work around in the short time we have between controlled PRONOM releases. The blog outlines an idea for a temporary, federated […]

By ross-spencer, posted in ross-spencer's Blog

11th Aug 2015  10:59 AM  4845 Reads  3 Comments