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 / libmagicThe tools tested for metadata extraction were:
File Investigator Engine
Exiftool
MediaInfo
pdfinfo from the Xpdf toolkit
Apache Tika
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