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Interesting article, but I expected it to deal with preserving information like file source, location, and metadata, which is IMO still an unsolved problem in d
by sanqui 6y ago
Interesting article, but I expected it to deal with preserving information like file source, location, and metadata, which is IMO still an unsolved problem in digital archival.
Specifically avoiding the use of multihash in favor of a new scheme doesn't sound very forward thinking, it's not so much more complex than the author thinks (to begin with, you can just abort for every prefix but the one you recognize).
- adamretter 6y ago> preserving information like file source, location, and metadata Sorry about that. It's definitely something we have been working on. Without going into too much detail here, we have the 1. The physical Digital File itself (i.e. the bitstream) which we might name with the ACID, and then 2. we have one or more Digital File metadata objects for each file that reference the physical file. The metadata object has an instance specific identifier (a unique id) and links to the physical file via its ACID. The metadata object holds all of the properties about that instance of the physical file, e.g. name.