Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Open Source category.
Fedora 12 released today!
For all you Fedora users, or wannabe users:
See the Fedora 12 release announcement.
Details about the release.
Or you can go to the download page and download it.
Xena – Digital Preservation Software
Developed by the National Archives of Australia. Has anyone seen this? Used it?
“Version 4.2.1 released, 12 January, 2009
Xena is free and open source software developed by the National Archives of Australia to aid in the long term preservation of digital records. Xena is an acronym meaning ‘Xml Electronic Normalising for Archives’.
Xena is written in Java and is therefore cross-platform, running on Linux, Windows and OS X.
Xena software aids digital preservation by performing two important tasks:
- Detecting the file formats of digital objects
- Converting digital objects into open formats for preservation”
I have yet to discover any software that successfully performs migration activities, and even normalization actions on ingest seem to be a little sketchy, so this excites me a lot.
If anyone has any knowledge of, experience with, or any more information about this, do please share!
On the road to ubiquitous emulators?
Check this out: Running C and Python Code on The Web
Am I reading too much into this, or is this the beginning of a trend toward open source emulation on the web? If it is, boy, does it make me giddy.
