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Extreme Identifiers (for use in URIs)

Recently I have been thinking about how Identifiers for things should be constructed. More specifically, as part of Project Omega for TNA (The National Archives), I have been thinking about identifiers for resources

  • Adam Retter
    Adam Retter
5 min read
nationalarchives

Archival Identifiers for Digital Files

When considering development of a new archival catalogue that can describe both physical, digitised, and born digital records, we quickly realised that unlike its predecessors this catalogue will also need to describe digital files. This blog post looks at using Content Identifiers for Digital File.

  • Adam Retter
    Adam Retter
5 min read
The National Archives

Archival Catalogue Record Identifiers

For The National Archives, we examine existing schemes for identifying Archival Catalogue Records. We then propose a new modern scheme suitable for use by both humans and URI for Linked Data: Omega Catalogue Identifiers.

  • Adam Retter
    Adam Retter
17 min read
GraalVM

GraalVM UTF-8 Validation

Experimenting with GraalVM and its native-image tool to speed up UTF-8 Validation in Java

  • Adam Retter
    Adam Retter
6 min read
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