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56,966 blogs · [ { "id": "01a08776-64d6-72b3-a935-da7806a66ae4", "title": "Declarative all the way down: Building PRONOM signatures with JSONID", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/declarative-all-the-way-down-building-pronom-signatures-with-jsonid/", "published_at": "2026-07-22T08:50:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08776-64d6-72b3-a935-da78079e4129", "title": "Shortened links? 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implement PREMIS (re)present it", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/dont-implement-premis-represent-it/", "published_at": "2024-11-07T09:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c526-d340-7231-ace7-e0f3883abfe1", "title": "Making DROID work with Wikidata", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/making-droid-work-with-wikidata/", "published_at": "2024-09-26T15:00:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c526-d340-7231-ace7-e0f3889033c3", "title": "Nibble in Cyberspace: Digipres Adventures, Vol 1", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/nibble-in-cyberspace-digipres-adventures-vol-1/", "published_at": "2024-08-29T19:42:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c526-d340-7231-ace7-e0f388bdcfd3", "title": "Client-side file format identification and reporting pipeline with Siegfried and Demystify Lite", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/client-side-identification-and-reporting-pipeline-with-siegfried-and-demystify-lite/", "published_at": "2024-07-22T09:38:39+00:00" }, { "id": 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}, { "id": "01a0c532-1e39-7137-a81c-3d61d2d892eb", "title": "What is the checksum of a directory? Introducing sumfolder1", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/signposting-what-is-the-checksum-of-a-directory-introducing-sumfolder1/", "published_at": "2023-07-13T23:27:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c532-1e39-7137-a81c-3d61d3301811", "title": "Published: PREMIS Events Through an Event-sourced Lens", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/published-premis-events-through-an-event-sourced-lens/", "published_at": "2023-07-11T23:51:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c532-1e39-7137-a81c-3d61d33631f5", "title": "What information is in a file format identification report?", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/published-fractal-in-detail-what-information-is-in-a-file-format-identification-report/", "published_at": "2023-07-09T23:02:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c532-1e39-7137-a81c-3d61d3bca92f", "title": "Programming things: Giving up… (or at least getting bitten by semver and Golang’s unforgiving nature, and wanting to!)", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/programming-things-giving-up-or-at-least-getting-bitten-by-semver-and-golangs-unforgiving-nature-and-wanting-to/", "published_at": "2021-05-11T15:51:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c532-1e39-7137-a81c-3d61d4a853a9", "title": "Information Maintainers talk: Something something twenty years open source…", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/information-maintainers-talk-something-something-twenty-years-open-source/", "published_at": "2020-09-05T12:43:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53c-1176-728e-bc1e-c770038de747", "title": "Published: The Hedgehog Review! But not like you nor I imagined…", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/published-the-hedgehog-review-but-not-like-you-nor-i-imagined/", "published_at": "2020-07-18T21:10:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53c-1176-728e-bc1e-c77003ed5fbe", "title": "OPFCON: How has OPF contributed to the international digital preservation community? Where would this community be without OPF?", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/opfcon-how-has-opf-contributed-to-the-international-digital-preservation-community-where-would-this-community-be-without-opf/", "published_at": "2020-06-13T22:17:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53c-1176-728e-bc1e-c7700409071f", "title": "Digital preservation at the coalface: or how I learned that glamping doesn’t always involve the vast wilderness", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/digital-preservation-at-the-coalface-or-how-i-learned-that-glamping-doesnt-always-involve-the-vast-wilderness/", "published_at": "2019-05-10T08:00:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53c-1176-728e-bc1e-c77004d88907", "title": "My GLAM: Sitting at the Coalface", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/my-glam-sitting-at-the-coalface/", "published_at": "2018-12-16T18:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53c-1176-728e-bc1e-c7700570e149", "title": "Digital Preservation as a Thought Experiment", "url": 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"01a0c53c-1176-728e-bc1e-c77007c424af", "title": "Color Theory: What’s the deal with the palettes I’m using?", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/colour-theory-whats-the-deal-with-the-palettes-im-using/", "published_at": "2017-10-08T07:59:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53c-1176-728e-bc1e-c770087c316e", "title": "The Painter Goblin Visits The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Top Five", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/the-painter-goblin-visits-the-museum-of-fine-arts-houston-top-five/", "published_at": "2017-09-11T05:06:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c545-121e-705e-8584-621c1549526a", "title": "Published in Archives and Manuscripts: Binary Trees—Automatically Identifying the Links Between Born-Digital Records", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/published-archives-and-manuscripts-binary-trees/", "published_at": "2017-08-10T06:49:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c545-121e-705e-8584-621c15afbd23", "title": "The Painter Goblin Visits The Met’s Top Ten", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/painter-goblin-visits-the-mets-top-ten/", "published_at": "2017-07-20T13:08:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c545-121e-705e-8584-621c160fd3cc", "title": "The Painter Goblin: Part 5, And Finally…", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/the-painter-goblin-part-5-and-finally/", "published_at": "2017-07-03T06:00:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c545-121e-705e-8584-621c167f8f5c", "title": "The Painter Goblin: Part 4, Putting it all together…", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/the-painter-goblin-part-4-putting-it-all-together/", "published_at": "2017-06-25T06:00:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c545-121e-705e-8584-621c16f23af4", "title": "The Painter Goblin: Part 3, Data Sources", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/the-painter-goblin-part-3-data-sources/", "published_at": "2017-06-19T06:00:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c545-121e-705e-8584-621c179c007a", "title": "The Painter Goblin: Part 2, Twitter Pieces", "url": 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Application", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/digital-preservation-the-job-application/", "published_at": "2017-04-24T22:44:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-ee0e-72e5-92ad-b36605047e0d", "title": "Context Switching: Do you really need to be an archivist programmer? One perspective…", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/context-switching-do-you-really-need-to-be-an-archivist-programmer-one-perspective/", "published_at": "2016-12-18T11:12:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-ee0e-72e5-92ad-b366051a6082", "title": "Binary Trees? Automatically Identifying the Links Between Born-digital Records", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/binary-trees-automatically-identifying-the-links-between-born-digital-records/", "published_at": "2016-11-26T13:50:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-ee0e-72e5-92ad-b366060039c3", "title": "Key :: Value Access Language (KVAL) for BoltDB and Golang", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/key-value-access-language-kval-for-boltdb-and-golang/", "published_at": "2016-11-22T00:47:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-ee0e-72e5-92ad-b366063dc623", "title": "2015: A Year in Binary", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/2015-a-year-in-binary/", "published_at": "2016-01-10T07:51:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-ee0e-72e5-92ad-b3660705f785", "title": "How Exactly Does the iPhone Transmit Diverse Emoji Characters?", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/how-exactly-does-the-iphone-transmit-diverse-emoji-characters/", "published_at": "2015-09-13T07:20:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-ee0e-72e5-92ad-b3660730643e", "title": "$man bot: homage to Thompson and Ritchie and the Linux man pages", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/man-bot-homage-to-thompson-and-ritchie-and-the-linux-man-pages/", "published_at": "2015-07-13T11:49:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-ee0e-72e5-92ad-b366079e9aaa", "title": "Dynamic avatars on Twitter", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/not-quite-perfect-a-lil-automatic-twitter-thingy/", "published_at": "2014-11-30T02:43:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-ee0e-72e5-92ad-b366088ff5d3", "title": "Architecture of The-FR.org", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/architecture-of-the-fr-org/", "published_at": "2013-12-02T07:44:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-ee0e-72e5-92ad-b3660897eb63", "title": "the-fr.org :: The Format Registry", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/the-fr-org-the-format-registry/", "published_at": "2013-11-19T11:02:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-ee0e-72e5-92ad-b366093fe8ca", "title": "Looking Back, MMV: MA Digital Culture and Technology: Digitisation of the Comic Book", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/looking-back-mmv-ma-digital-culture-and-technology-digitisation-of-the-comic-book/", "published_at": "2013-11-05T06:58:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-7407-7383-a609-eea2ae63b6b1", "title": "The Civil Servant Perspective", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/the-civil-servant-perspective/", "published_at": "2013-08-04T12:10:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-7407-7383-a609-eea2af193837", "title": "Published! The Skeleton Test Corpus", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/published-the-skeleton-test-corpus/", "published_at": "2013-07-04T09:16:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-7407-7383-a609-eea2af52ac7e", "title": "Shouldn’t digital preservation tools be released under the GNU General Public License?", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/should-digital-preservation-tools-be-released-under-the-gnu-general-public-license/", "published_at": "2013-02-03T22:45:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-7407-7383-a609-eea2b01e7809", "title": "The Problem With… Comprehensive Test Suites. Lessons Learned During The Development Of The Skeleton Test Corpus", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/the-problem-with-comprehensive-test-suites/", "published_at": "2013-01-21T10:30:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-7407-7383-a609-eea2b102b39a", "title": "Binary Prime Numbers, with Added Code", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/binary-prime-numbers-with-added-code/", "published_at": "2012-12-28T23:22:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-7407-7383-a609-eea2b16bd40a", "title": "Hacking the DROID Signature File: Keep It Simple Stupid!", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/hacking-the-droid-signature-file-keep-it-simple-stupid/", "published_at": "2012-11-22T21:48:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-7407-7383-a609-eea2b23cad86", "title": "Hacking the DROID Signature File for Characterization", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/hacking-the-droid-signature-file-for-characterization/", "published_at": "2012-11-14T01:24:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-7407-7383-a609-eea2b2e961dc", "title": "Genesis of a File Format", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/genesis-of-a-file-format/", "published_at": "2012-11-08T13:34:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-7407-7383-a609-eea2b3707ecb", "title": "Message in a Bottle", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/message-in-a-bottle/", "published_at": "2012-10-25T00:49:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-7407-7383-a609-eea2b411037e", "title": "Data as Art – Data as Culture", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/data-as-art-art-as-culture/", "published_at": "2012-10-18T23:18:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55e-9bc3-70f3-9aef-973304988c7a", "title": "The Skeleton Test Corpus", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/the-skeleton-test-corpus/", "published_at": "2012-10-17T02:49:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55e-9bc3-70f3-9aef-9733050d9bbd", "title": "pidgeracer.tumblr.com", "url": "https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/pidgeracer-tumblr-com/", "published_at": "2012-10-17T02:09:48+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Declarative all the way down: Building PRONOM signatures with JSONIDoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2026
Shortened links? Expand them and save the URLsoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2026
Vale Carl Wilson, Digital Preservation’s Indie Rockstaroriginal ↗
28 Jun 2026
Why we do this work…original ↗
17 Jun 2026
Porting SafeText and analyzing digital content with Apache Tikaoriginal ↗
19 May 2026
Maintenance begins at creation, so why are we not creating better?original ↗
12 May 2026
Winding down at Orcfax: a retrospectiveoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2026
Digital dark times: Salaries in digital preservationoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2026
When you can’t pay for things the currency of payment is psychic…original ↗
28 Jan 2026

2025

The Painter Goblin: Becoming Corporealoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2025
Revisiting bsdiff as a tool for digital preservationoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2025
Turning NASA Wake-up Calls into dataoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2025
Looking after your URLs: tikalinkextract eight years onoriginal ↗
26 May 2025
Declarative programming for Digital Preservationists @ NTTW8original ↗
19 May 2025
File formats as Emoji: 0xffaeoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2025
File format building blocks: primitives in digital preservationoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2025
Informed consent: considering steganographic techniques to fingerprint Generative AI outputoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2025
The sensitivity index: Corrupting Y2Koriginal ↗
11 Feb 2025
wikidata + mediawiki = wikidata + provenance == wikiprovoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2025
Unrealized ideas: Unintentional Secrecy in the Era of Opennessoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2025
Interviewing in digital preservation: a duty of care and communityoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2025

2024

What will you bitflip today?original ↗
23 Dec 2024
A year in file formats 2024original ↗
16 Dec 2024
What we could do with a second life…original ↗
8 Dec 2024
Versioning as memory?original ↗
6 Dec 2024
Code as memory?original ↗
3 Dec 2024
PRONOM’s dustiest recordsoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2024
What I will miss about Twitteroriginal ↗
14 Nov 2024
simpledroid: completing the looporiginal ↗
11 Nov 2024
Don’t implement PREMIS (re)present itoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2024
Making DROID work with Wikidataoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2024
Nibble in Cyberspace: Digipres Adventures, Vol 1original ↗
29 Aug 2024
Client-side file format identification and reporting pipeline with Siegfried and Demystify Liteoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2024
Digital Preservation and the Gen-Z Technology Skills Gaporiginal ↗
21 Jul 2024
We love our fiefdoms: The DPC and Wikidataoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2024
iPRES2024: Self-sovereign-digital preservation: The reviewers enjoyed your submission, but… what reviewers???original ↗
1 Jul 2024
Not your first paper from iPRES2024: Design patterns in Digital Preservation: Declarative software for digital preservationistsoriginal ↗
13 May 2024
Demystify-lite is upgraded and demystify 2.0.0 is finally here!original ↗
6 May 2024
PRONOM release statisticsoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2024
Moving to Leipzig and the year aheadoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2024

2023

A rough guide to digital preservation metadataoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2023
Shattering the eyeglass: Using Kaitai Structs to dissect the eyeglass’ contentsoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2023
Linting as understandingoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2023
Moonshine: a small part of the file format analyst’s toolkitoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2023
Using a custom Wikibase with Siegfriedoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2023
What is the checksum of a directory? Introducing sumfolder1original ↗
13 Jul 2023
Published: PREMIS Events Through an Event-sourced Lensoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2023
What information is in a file format identification report?original ↗
9 Jul 2023

2021

Programming things: Giving up… (or at least getting bitten by semver and Golang’s unforgiving nature, and wanting to!)original ↗
11 May 2021

2020

Information Maintainers talk: Something something twenty years open source…original ↗
5 Sept 2020
Published: The Hedgehog Review! But not like you nor I imagined…original ↗
18 Jul 2020
OPFCON: How has OPF contributed to the international digital preservation community? Where would this community be without OPF?original ↗
13 Jun 2020

2019

Digital preservation at the coalface: or how I learned that glamping doesn’t always involve the vast wildernessoriginal ↗
10 May 2019

2018

My GLAM: Sitting at the Coalfaceoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2018
Digital Preservation as a Thought Experimentoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2018
Digital Preservation Risk analysis, Uncertainty, and Digital File Format Obsolescence (European Conference on Digital Archives (2010))original ↗
8 Dec 2018
Infinite Blue @ The Brooklyn Museumoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2018

2017

My first weeks at Artefactual Systems Inc.original ↗
17 Dec 2017
Color Theory: What’s the deal with the palettes I’m using?original ↗
8 Oct 2017
The Painter Goblin Visits The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Top Fiveoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2017
Published in Archives and Manuscripts: Binary Trees—Automatically Identifying the Links Between Born-Digital Recordsoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2017
The Painter Goblin Visits The Met’s Top Tenoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2017
The Painter Goblin: Part 5, And Finally…original ↗
3 Jul 2017
The Painter Goblin: Part 4, Putting it all together…original ↗
25 Jun 2017
The Painter Goblin: Part 3, Data Sourcesoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2017
The Painter Goblin: Part 2, Twitter Piecesoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2017
The Painter Goblin: Part 1, The Zineoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2017
Brainscape Flashcards: For Digital Preservationoriginal ↗
27 May 2017
Ménage-à-préservation: The tensions of Digital Preservation as-a-Service…original ↗
28 Apr 2017
Digital Preservation: The Job Applicationoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2017

2016

Context Switching: Do you really need to be an archivist programmer? One perspective…original ↗
18 Dec 2016
Binary Trees? Automatically Identifying the Links Between Born-digital Recordsoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2016
Key :: Value Access Language (KVAL) for BoltDB and Golangoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2016
2015: A Year in Binaryoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2016

2015

How Exactly Does the iPhone Transmit Diverse Emoji Characters?original ↗
13 Sept 2015
$man bot: homage to Thompson and Ritchie and the Linux man pagesoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2015

2014

Dynamic avatars on Twitteroriginal ↗
30 Nov 2014

2013

Architecture of The-FR.orgoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2013
the-fr.org :: The Format Registryoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2013
Looking Back, MMV: MA Digital Culture and Technology: Digitisation of the Comic Bookoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2013
The Civil Servant Perspectiveoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2013
Published! The Skeleton Test Corpusoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2013
Shouldn’t digital preservation tools be released under the GNU General Public License?original ↗
3 Feb 2013
The Problem With… Comprehensive Test Suites. Lessons Learned During The Development Of The Skeleton Test Corpusoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2013

2012

Binary Prime Numbers, with Added Codeoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2012
Hacking the DROID Signature File: Keep It Simple Stupid!original ↗
22 Nov 2012
Hacking the DROID Signature File for Characterizationoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2012
Genesis of a File Formatoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2012
Message in a Bottleoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2012
Data as Art – Data as Cultureoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2012
The Skeleton Test Corpusoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2012
pidgeracer.tumblr.comoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2012