The Trump Admin fired the Director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library over his refusal to provide an artifact from the Library’s collection as a gift for King Charles. What the everloving fuck.

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Revisiting bsdiff for digital preservation. I first blogged about this in 2014, but how does it stand in terms of its potential and ease of use in 2025? I take a look in this new blog.

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#digipres #Linux #FreeBSD #Provenance #Archives #DigitalForensics

Last summer I visited the Niels Bohr Library and Archives of the American Institute of Physics. That visit turned into an interview (Allison Rein interviewed me). Very excited to share this. I hope it will help more people find our catalogue! #historyofscience www.aip.org/library/ex-l...

👀 Excited to see who's speaking at #iPRES2025? Our draft programme is still in the works, but we have released an indicative list of accepted submissions of Full and Short Papers, Panels, Posters, Tutorials, and Workshops: www.ipres2025.nz/post/preview... Please note the list is subject to change.

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

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

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...

New blog post: Tightrope - an iPRES 2024 trip report https://anjackson.net/2025/01/05/tightrope/ #digipres #ipres2024

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...