Ed Summers

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Hacker for libraries, wannabe archivist, web-nerd.

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Mar 18	comment	What repositories are exposing information about research data sets as Linked Data? Kind of depends on what you mean by Repository and Linked Data :-)
Mar 12	comment	Migrating a repository content to a different platform Can't help but be reminded of the saying: out of the frying pan into the fire.
Feb 25	awarded	Nice Answer
Dec 3	awarded	Nice Answer
Nov 30	revised	Characterization of WARC files contents? added 8 characters in body
Nov 30	comment	Is JPEG2000 really a good preservation format? Peter, yes that's another angle. I believe that the Aware license we have is per-CPU.
Nov 27	comment	Is JPEG2000 really a good preservation format? my apologies if the sound of my axe grinding is preventing me from communicating properly :-)
Nov 27	comment	Is JPEG2000 really a good preservation format? JP2 at scale for chroniclingamerica.loc.gov means ~60 tile and thumbnail requests/sec. I think paying the whole-file decode would be acceptable if it performed more like JPEG w/ a library like PIL, than JP2 implementation's like kakadu or jasper. Perhaps its time to take another look at OpenJPEG though.
Nov 27	revised	Is JPEG2000 really a good preservation format? deleted 11 characters in body
Nov 27	answered	Is JPEG2000 really a good preservation format?
Nov 15	revised	How to easily publish archived files as torrent added 304 characters in body
Nov 15	answered	How to easily publish archived files as torrent
Oct 2	comment	How to preserve old newspapers? I'm kind of curious how you know they are of historical significance.
Aug 28	comment	CV improvements for library careers Can you share your CV for us to take a look?
Aug 2	answered	METS serialization with Digital Object versioning
Aug 2	comment	What aspects of authenticity should libraries and archives be attending to in digital preservation activities? That's kind of an expansive question :-) Maybe rather than asking how we "should" be thinking about authenticity it would be better to talk about examples of how we currently work with authenticity in digital preservation systems?
Aug 2	revised	What approaches are there for archiving and preserving databases and what tradeoffs are there between different approaches? added 16 characters in body
Aug 2	answered	What approaches are there for archiving and preserving databases and what tradeoffs are there between different approaches?
Jul 27	comment	Why doesn't Zotero import the language field from an article COinS? It's so sad to me that people still talk about COinS. But it's par for the course I suppose.
Jul 25	comment	How should archives decide between creating logical or forensic disk images of drives on computers accessioned as part of personal papers collections? Good point about the perspective of the donor. It does seem important for donors to understand and agree to forensic imaging of their donation.