DROID (Digital Record and Object Identification)

signature-based file format identification

Siegfried-based characterization tool for directories and disk images

Engine for analysis of Siegfried export files and DROID CSV. The tool has three purposes, break the export into its components and store them within a SQLite database; create additional columns to augment the output where useful; and query the SQLite database, outputting results in a readable form useful for analysis by researchers and archivists within digital preservation departments in memory institutions. The tool will find duplicates, unidentified files, blacklisted objects, character encoding issues, and more.

A mirror of the PRONOM file format registry in Linked Open Data format. The Format Registry is a linked (open) data file format repository. The work is the result of a four-day hack during November 2013. Its goal is to influence the rapid development of further format registries and linked open data initiatives within the digital preservation community.

Pyscripted Demystify enabling analysis of DROID and Siegfried reports from the browser

DROID Skeleton Test Suite Generator (skeleton-test-suite-generator): Tool for the automated generation of digital objects based on the digital signatures documented in the PRONOM database maintained by The National Archives, UK. The skeleton-test-suite-generator serves to fill the gap that exists whereby the community requires a corpus of digital objects for the validation and evaluation of format identification tools and techniques. The tool should be used to complement a methodology whereby skeleton files are also generated manually by signature developers. The tool takes a signature specified for a digital object in PRONOM and constructs a digital object that will match its footprint. For more information, see the README.md associated with the project...

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pygfried is a CPython extension that brings Siegfried, the Go-based signature file format identification tool, to Python.

Release repository for The Skeleton Test Suite. Contains an Archive of PRONOM, and skeleton files for testing DROID from The National Archives, UK.

PRONOM Signature Development Utility

Python scripts to export the XML data available by The National Archives, UK, technical registry, PRONOM.

Normalize file format identification results (DROID, Siegfried) into a single SQLite DB

Python script to add file extensions based on PRONOM ID (PUID)

Simplified DROID signature file generator

Amendment to the Skeleton Test Suite, creating OLE2 and ZIP container file types.

File-formats as Emoji

Convert Wikidata SPARQL output into a DROID signature file

Searching for a signature: A FFID workshop

Tools, and API for working with PRONOM releases

ffdev.info signature combiner

Sample file format for teaching the principles file format development in the digital preservation community

PRONOM summary page