Potlach Feast

This week the NDIIPP partners meeting, the Library of Congress is holding a Recollection workshop to demonstrate some of the capabilities this platform provides to the digital preservation community. In addition to being able to connect / upload / transform various different data formats as well as allowing users to build various interactive exhibit interfaces [...]

15 years ago, I was involved in series of discussions at the IETF regarding technical standards related to identifying resources in decentralized environments. Acronyms such as “URI”, “URN”, “URL”, “URC” (and occasionally the phrase “you are kidding?!”) where constantly thrown around with much heated debate regarding requirements, protocols, semantics and capabilities for each of these [...]