The other day, as part of some information engineering I was doing, I needed to ingest a folder of high quality Tiff files. The combined size of all the files was 35GB. I had brought my trusty WD Passport external hard drive and figured I’d just dump them from the host computer onto there. Once … Continue reading Massive file transfer
Author: John Trendler
technologist, cyclist, information designer, digital asset manager, creative professional
clocked in
data migration planning on a train. The long train ride from Los Angeles to San Diego went extremely quick since I was working. It's amazing how time flies when you're processing data. Luckily Amtrak has electrical sockets at nearly all the seats. I'm at a Starbucks downtown San Diego right now, found free wifi (not … Continue reading clocked in
three enemies of digital image preservation (in a nutshell)
1. Corruption I'm not talking about dirty politics here, but rather compression of the file, lossy compression in specific - the type that creates smaller file sizes for jpegs and what not. Lossless Tiff formats keep all the pixels, which mean the image quality won't suffer over time. One thing I learned long ago about … Continue reading three enemies of digital image preservation (in a nutshell)
John Trendler 