Andy Jackson  

@anjacks0n

Tech lead for the UK Web Archive - data miner, digital preserver, entropy buster, partial physicist, geek. @anj@digipres.club

United Kingdom
Joined March 2007

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  1. Happy to have edited this fantastic lesson on working with batches of PDF files by 🚀Huge thanks to our fab reviewers and Jack Pay & the team. Please support so we can continue to share knowledge free of charge

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  2. 2 hours ago

    users - particularly those who who no-profile mode and CLI generally - Please have a read through - we need your insights! Please spread the word!

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  3. 4 hours ago

    Check out our website, where you can also subscribe to our Newsletter where information about WARCnet events and activities will be published in the coming two years -- more information about network activities will be tweeted in the coming days

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  4. 5 hours ago

    Great to see the website for WARCnet, a new network for web archive studies, live - lots of exciting events and activities planned over the next two years with , & other lovely people.

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  5. I need to find a book about historical conceptions of cancer

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  7. 20 hours ago

    THE BANDWIDTH BUSTER TOOLKIT: The best way to interact with en masse is the Internet Archive Client, a command-line program that will use our API and allow you to do mass actions and downloads with incredible ease.

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  8. Feb 2

    Nice article on how open science is being used to track, predict and combat the current Coronavirus outbreak. Includes link to GitHub repository with data on cases (no explicit open licensing, sigh).

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  9. Feb 1

    Also Just-in-time gives you more chances to get it right. Just-in-case is often only done once and it’s harder to pick up problems.

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  10. Jan 31

    TFW you see students' looks of horror when you export an excel file with dates to a CSV, then reimport it, and see the dates utterly changed.

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  11. Feb 1

    We've left the EU. What's changed? Not much initially. We'll enter the transition period for 11 months and in that time most things that will change are to do with political and legal processes. Read our full Brexit Q+A 👇

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  12. Feb 1

    I guess it’s too much to hope we won’t hear from Farage again after this?

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  13. Jan 31

    “In 2018, the Trump administration fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command … In numerous phone calls and emails with key agencies across the U.S. government, the only consistent response I encountered was distressed confusion.”

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  15. Jan 31

    We need the historical perspective, and wise analysis of more than ever these days

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  16. Jan 31

    BlueMaxima's Flashpoint: massive Flash/Shockwave preservation project makes 38,000 webgames and 2,400 animations playable from a single Windows-only launcher

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  17. Really pleased to contribute to this wonderful work by and and team ! An open access guide to openly licensed digitised newspapers around the world, so you don't have to figure out all the metadata schemas yourself when wanting to reuse them.

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  18. Glasgow's Duke of Wellington statue sports new headgear on

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  19. Jan 31

    I just think it’s missing out on the fullest possibilities that computer-generated artefacts like vector spaces can offer if we engage with them as new representations in their own right, not something to be boiled down unsatisfactorily

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  20. Jan 31

    I don’t find automated metadata generation quite as dull, but agree it’s the tip of the iceberg of opportunity. Er.

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