… said Dr Paul Gooding when analogising our Digital Curation lab task on simulating file corruption. Cover photo taken from Episode 20 “Paranoia”, Season 3, Brooklyn Nine-nine (NBC)
“The bytes are bottles on the mantel; now shoot ’em with your gun”
Month: Jan 2019
Testing, testing… and decoding
Digital Curation week one and our mission was to break a lot of files and decode some clues; could we do it? Tessa, Matt, Musa and Lucy had a go...
Digital Detectives-Converting Binary,Hexidecimal and Base 64 to Text
As part of our first class in Digital Curation, we completed numerous tasks- including one in which we became digital detectives for the afternoon! Clue were given on a Clues.txt Notepad, in a variety of different digital digital encoding languages- it was our task to use the UTF8 ⇔ Binary, Hex, and Base 64 Converter … Continue reading Digital Detectives-Converting Binary,Hexidecimal and Base 64 to Text
Digital Decoding
Difficulties of decoding: Software doesn't always work Specialist software and knowledge is needed to be able to decode Decoded Questions and Answers (& how we did it): The first question couldn't be decoded due to broken software. The second question was decoded using UTF8 hexadecimal converter. The question was: What was the first full length … Continue reading Digital Decoding
Let’s Wreck All the Files!
For our experiment in Digital Curation, we chose to test which of the file types responded the most dramatically to a minimal levels of "shooting" and "corruption". We used the programme "shotGun.exe" to corrupt various file types including text files, image files and audio files. To do this we allocated each of us four or … Continue reading Let’s Wreck All the Files!
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