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DPF manager: TIFF conformance checker, user-friendly
Cute lecture on compression
Dan Hockstein and Mari Allison are 2022 Junior Fellows in the Digital Collections Management and Services Division (DCMS) working under the mentorship of Kate Murray. Over the course of our Junior Fellowship this summer, we have focused on a variety of streams of work around the Library of Congress’ Sustainability of Digital Formats website. The […]
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray (Digital Projects Coordinator, Digital Collections Management & Services Division), Marcus Nappier (Digital Collections Specialist, Digital Content Management Section), and Ted Westervelt (Chief, US/Anglo Division) at the Library of Congress. Introduction As the Library of Congress expands its digital collecting activities, the Recommended Formats Statement (RFS) has revised its […]
Yesterday, a researcher disclosed a method of hiding up to three MB of data inside a Twitter image. In his demonstration, the researcher showed both MP3 audio files and ZIP archives contained within the PNG images hosted on Twitter.
Adobe’s once-mighty plug-in will stop working soon, not a moment too soon. Some old Flash games, however, are great—and clever workarounds will save them.
Resource forks, argh.
4800 distinct file extensions!!!! Good explanation of why/how.