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FIDO News

TechMaurice

September 18, 2013

Here's a little newsbulletin about FIDO, the open source file format identification tool of OPF. It seems that the use of FIDO is growing the last few months. I am getting responses by e-mail and through the Github issuetracker from all over the world, ranging from requests for help, giving suggestions for improvement and even some bugfixes. Thanks and please keep them coming! RECENT CHANGES Most important change currently is the versioning schema of tagged releases.If you forked FIDO or watching the tags for updates, please notice that the versioning schema has changed from [major].[minor].[patch] to [major].[minor].[patch]-[PRONOM version number].The reason...

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EPUB for archival preservation: an update

johan

May 23, 2013

Last year (2012) the KB released a report on the suitability of the EPUB format for archival preservation. A substantial number of EPUB-related developments have happened since then, and as a result some of the report's findings and conclusions have become outdated. This applies in particular to the observations on EPUB 3, and the support of EPUB by characterisation tools. This blog post provides an update to those findings. It addresses the following topics in particular: Use of EPUB in scholarly publishing Adoption and use of EPUB 3 EPUB 3 reader support Support of EPUB by characterisation tools In the...

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PDF Eh? – Another Hackathon Tale

pixelatedpete

March 15, 2013

“Characterization” can mean many things (I’m particularly fond, especially in this context, of the OED’s “creation of a fictitious character or fictitious characters”). Back in October Paul Wheatley suggested that digital preservation practitioners needed “better characterisation” and defined this as enabling them to determine the condition, content and value of digital records prior to ingest (computer-aided appraisal if you will). To this end SPRUCE organised a Unified Characterisation Hackathon with the intent of “unifying our community’s approach to characterisation by coordinating existing toolsets and improving their capabilities”. With FITS, DROID and JHOVE2 all well represented this promised to be a...

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OPF Webinar “Digital Preservation at your command, part II” available as video

TechMaurice

February 4, 2013

Last week I had the honour to host the OPF Webinar "Digital Preservation at your command, part II". During the Webinar attendees were shown the difference and/or similarities between the command line interfaces of MS DOS, Linux and Apple.

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File Identification using Fido and the UDFR Registry

Peter May

September 10, 2012

Task: I primarily wanted to get an understanding of SPARQL queries and how they can be used to query linked data. As a focus for my work, I set myself a challenge to get Fido working using signatures from the UDFR registry. Solution: The code (available on GitHub) has two python scripts. The first, UDFR_wrapper.py, provides a wrapper around calling SPARQL queries on the UDFR registry. The second, fido_prepare.py (based on Fido’s prepare.py), uses this wrapper to generate a Fido signature XML file which can be loaded using Fido’s -loadformat argument (to demonstrate that Fido uses only this signature file, some minor mods...

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File Characterisation Tools – A Report on a Testing Project Conducted at the National Library of Australia

matthewh

August 12, 2012

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. Although written as an internal report, it contains material that will be of interest to the general digital preservation community, and so I am posting it here for your reference. The report is attached. The project tested file characterisation tools,...