Deep into that darkness peering: Our Dark Repository
An examination of our new dark preservation repository with some Poe thrown in for fun!
Posts on October 2018
from Bits and Pieces
Understanding thorny file formats - the netCDF Data Curation Format Profile (DCFP)
In the UMich Research Data Services (RDS) group, we see and work with all sorts of data. One particularly thorny variety is netCDF. In Deep Blue Data, we have been getting regular deposits of data in this format, and we didn't know much about it. We had many questions how do we open it, what's its structure, how do researchers create these files and why can the size vary so widely from 100s of MBs to 100s of GBs or even TBs? Jake Carlson, Director of RDS, and I hashed out the idea of...
Mold is Weird: Part 2
Part two outlining our findings after discovering some moldy floppy disks.