Tools and Models
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Tools | Complexity | Usability | Currency | Fear Factor | Popularity | X Factor | Description |
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OAIS | 91 | 33 | 86 | 89 | 95 | 94 | Originating from the space data community, OAIS has become the bible of the wider digital preservation community. It provides a high level framework of a digital repository and a diagram that MUST be present in any presentation on digital preservation. |
FITS | 76 | 25 | 79 | 56 | 69 | 95 | A characterisation tool that runs an array of atomic preservation tools and combines and normalises the output to simplify analysis and reuse. |
DROID | 45 | 76 | 64 | 41 | 79 | 62 | DROID is a file format identification tool developed by The National Archives. It identifies file formats based on the definitions contained within The National Archives’ file format registry, PRONOM. |
Apache Tika | 72 | 33 | 81 | 52 | 62 | 88 | A content analysis toolkit which has been used successfully to extract characterisation metadata from digital objects. Tika detects and extracts metadata and structured text content from various documents. |