`ark`: A Personal Archive System, Part 1: An Archivist’s View

Note: This post is the first in a new series of posts describing ark, a command-line-based personal archive system I have developed and am using as my primary archiving tool. If you are not interested in this type of tech post, feel free to skip it. For those who are interested, a plan to provide a new entry in the series each Tuesday for the next 14 weeks.ark is not publicly available on GitHub at the moment. The system has been highly tailored to how I work. It is also highly tailored to the Mac environment. I am on the fence about making it publicly available because I don’t have the time or inclination to support it. While I was careful with the design, the design was egocentric in that the one and only user I had in mind was me. Depending on the feedback I hear from folks over the next fourteen weeks, I’ll see about whether I’ll make the code publicly available. A couple of months ago, I was searching for a trust document. I’ve got two computers and two external drives. I tried…