File Formats

Fascinating one to watch in #digipres #FileFormats world about data + representation and the possibilities for music notation.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3bUFgEcb4

#MusicNotation #MusicTheory #Abstractions #Accessibility

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via @DavidUnderdown@digipres.club It will be World Digital Preservation Day on 2 November and the Digital Archiving Department at The National Archives (UK) will be coordinating a #PRONOM hackathon/research week from 2-9 November #WDPD2023

Find out more at https://github.com/digital-preservation/PRONOM_Research/blob/main/PRONOM_Research_Week/Research_Week_2023.md

Shattering the eyeglass: Using Kaitai Structs to dissect the eyeglass’ contents

https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/shattering-the-eyeglass/

A decade later I revisit the Eyeglass training format to dissect its contents. I though about a couple of approaches to doing this and landed on looking at part of it manually a la #digipres research and then using #kaitai to illustrate the principles further. Hopefully it is of interest to some! #FileFormats

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What are your thoughts? How should files with passwords or encryption be identified? by. @thorsted@Thorsted@digipres.club

A new corpus to add to the list?

"NapierOne. A Publicly Available Modern Mixed File Data Set"

https://github.com/simonrdavies/NapierOne/tree/main

@file_formats

#digipres #GitHub #Corpora #FileFormats