AVPreserve Accepting Applications for the Role of Senior Consultant
7 July 2015
We’re growing! And AVPreserve is looking for people to grow with us in the role of Senior Consultant.
Reading In: Analyzing Embedded Metadata in Digital Images
6 July 2015
When the news came out about accused South Carolina church shooter Dylann Roof’s website and the photographs that had been posted there, I visited the site and downloaded the package of digital images out of curiosity, as an archivist, to take a look inside the images. I was interested to see the metadata, to break open the files — so to speak — and evaluate the bytes themselves. As archivists, that is exactly what we do with any collection of digital objects. We look under the hood. We look for patterns and information that will help us understand the context in which the files were created, and to help us identify any evidence that might inform us of the provenance, the originality, the history of the documentary resources we have acquired.
