Bertrand Caron

EOSC/EDEN project employee at TIB (npub1268…u2k4).
Formerly digital preservation analyst at #BnF.
Digital preservation & digital culture; file formats, digital forensics, historical digital materiality.

Banner image: Robin FRANÇOIS 💿 (npub1y9g…kavw) & I @ iPRES 2024 - photo taken by Tyler Thorsted (npub1e08…6ee4).

Toots in English and French.

"Internet aussi, c'est la vraie vie !" (Lucie Ronfaut)

#digipres #DigiPres_FR

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Pronouns: he / him
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Last Notes

2026-08-20 17:46:52 UTC

Hi #retrocomputing experts! One of my colleagues at the French national archives wonders what these tapes are!
Bonus point if you have any clue about how to retrieve data from them...
https://digipres-club.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/117/129/071/930/308/903/original/61df7e5f4c0d29f5.jpg
https://digipres-club.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/117/129/072/169/834/645/original/1c86faae13304156.jpg

2026-06-27 14:22:01 UTC

Ça a pris du temps, mais la réaction forte et responsable du gouvernement a fini par arriver.
https://www.latribune.fr/article/la-tribune-dimanche/societe/20718266948138/canicule-le-gouvernement-va-prolonger-les-soldes-dete

2026-01-14 16:15:10 UTC

Hi #digipres people!
If you had to teach command-line basics for digital preservation, would you choose...
(Bonus point if you explain why!)

2025-06-27 07:29:53 UTC

Eh, @npub1yu2…8rd5 , tu veux pas qu'on interviewe @npub16ys…sjae sur la "peinture numérique", le cycle de production, les produits de chaque étape de création, les propriétés signifiantes, les moyens d'analyser et contrôler tout ça, et après on fait un papier à #iPRES2026 qui cartonne ?
(David ne va pas du tout se sentir utilisé, non non 😆 .)

2025-06-25 15:31:27 UTC

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Notice the nice sentence below the said figures “See animations with Adobe Reader, KDE Okular or YouTube.” Well, my Adobe Reader does not work, so let’s try Okular – already heard of it, never tried it yet: https://okular.kde.org. We’re welcome on the landing page by an illustration from @npub16ys…sjae always a good sign.
And it works! #Okular displays videos as soon as we open the file and scroll to the figure. 4/9

2025-06-25 15:30:02 UTC

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If you click “Options” then “Trust this document”, you can then click on figures 1 and 7. But in my case, the image is replaced by a black rectangle, and that’s it. In fact, this should be a video, but Adobe Reader won’t display it. Only if I right-click BEFORE having enabled (by just left-clicking on it), have I the option to “Save video as”. Then I can play it with VLC. 3/9

2025-06-25 15:29:34 UTC

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Well, they are not. Try downloading the file, and open it with Adobe Reader. This could depend on the version (mine is 2025.001.20432), but you’ll probably see this warning on the top of your document:
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/114/744/707/335/345/806/original/707a7a8bb94e980a.png

2025-06-25 15:26:07 UTC

Hi #digipres folks! I have one interesting #PDF here https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/file/98c9b79e9c686aadd4d81e34a7773dd1-Paper-Datasets_and_Benchmarks.pdf. Notice anything strange when opening it in your browser? Probably not. Now take a look at figures 1 and 7. They look like still images right? 1/9

2024-12-12 15:30:40 UTC

Hey #AV archivists! Anyone collecting video from the web with yt-dlp would accept to share their policy/config?
#digipres

2024-09-24 12:33:44 UTC

Hey #digipres nerds! What do you use to manipulate METS files?
And are you aware of any XML editor that can handle METS (namespaces, internal references via IDREF/IDREFS)? Bonus point if it can apply #schematron ...
I individually use Oxygen XML Editor but it became really expensive and I don't think my institution can afford as many licences it would need.

2024-09-09 15:29:29 UTC

I'm preparing my #iPRES2024 presentation and there might be one or two works of @npub16ys…sjae in it. Means it's time to make a new donation to support his work and thank him!!