File Characterization Tools Tested: Project Report From National Library of Australia (Digital Preservation)
From an Open Planets Foundation Blog Post by Matthew Hutchins
The National Library of Australia has just completed a small project to investigate and test a number of software tools of interest to digital preservation activities. The result of this project was an internal report describing the tests and the results, and giving some recommendations about the potential for using these tools in a planned replacement of the Library’s infrastructure for managing digital content.
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The tools tested for file format identification were:
File Investigator Engine
Outside-In File ID
FIDO
Unix file / libmagic
The tools tested for metadata extraction were:
File Investigator Engine
Exiftool
MediaInfo
pdfinfo from the Xpdf toolkit
Apache Tika
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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