#fident

The UK National Archive quietly released DROID 6.2 this month. I noticed only because of some mentions on Twitter. The file dates indicate the update was released on February 16. Here’s the new portion of the changelog: (more…)

File identification tools, part 10: Siegfried

“Do we really need another PRONOM-based file format identification tool?” That’s what Richard Lehane asked rhetorically last year on the Open Preservation Foundation blog. It was obviously rhetorical, since he’d gone ahead and done just that with a new tool called Siegfried. Siegfried recently turned up in some tweets by Ross Spencer, so it’s worth a mention here. (more…)

File identification tools, part 8: NLNZ Metadata Extraction Tool

The name of the NLNZ (National Library of New Zealand) Metadata Extraction Tool suggests getting metadata more than identifying files, FITS uses it as part of its set of format identification tools. It employs a set of adapters to access the following file formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG TIFF, MS Word, Word Perfect, Open Office, MS Works, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, PDF, WAV, MP3, BWF, FLAC, HTML, XML, and…