Links for October 2016

10/31/2016 (updated 11/20/16)

• 'We're Going Backward!' | October 2016 | Communications of the ACM
• Boomerang: A bidirectional programming language for ad-hoc data
• China’s Digital Soft Power Play - NYTimes.com
• Emojis join Van Gogh and Picasso at Museum of Modern Art - LA Times
• Figuring out the PDF version is harder than you think | Mad File Format Science
• Google and Monotype unveil the Noto Project’s unified font for all languages | TechCrunch
• How Hollywood Gets Its Old-School Tech
• How I added 6 characters to Unicode (and you can too)
• Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.1 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015)
• More than 800 languages in a single typeface: creating Noto for Google | Monotype
• Open Preservation Foundation
• PASIG 2016 NYC
• PCem
• Pixels and voxels, the long answer – Retronator Magazine – Medium
• Public safety codes are now free online for all / Boing Boing
• Texture
• The Internet’s Own Instigator
• This top-rated productivity app makes PDFs less annoying / Boing Boing
• Three different ways to do progressive JPEG encoding | Cloudinary Blog
• Unicode property escapes in JavaScript regular expressions · Mathias Bynens
• Versioning in the Caselaw Access Project - Library Innovation Lab
• Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge - Slashdot
• Wikidata as a digital preservation knowledgebase - Open Preservation Foundation
• Wikipedia community and Internet Archive partner to fix one million broken links on Wikipedia – Wikimedia Blog
• Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving
• Yawar’s Journal: The Birkana hexadecimal number symbols
• seriot.ch - Parsing JSON is a Minefield 💣

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