FIDO (Format Identification for Digital Objects) is a Python command line tool to identify the file formats of digital objects. A lot of improvements to the code and functionality have been made.
This tool needs some explanation of how it came about. At Nationaal Archief we were faced with various bottlenecks at ingest for our digital repository (which we call e-Depot). Characterization was one of them and when the OPF released the first prototype of FIDO we happily jumped on board for its development. Seeing the potential for significant speed increases, Nationaal Archief put in a substantial amount of work - freeing me for development of FIDO, leading to a wrapped Java version.
The new FIDO (Format Identification for Digital Objects) is here, version 0.9.6.
Improvements:
Open Planets Foundation is proud to present: Fido.jar. A java port of the Python version of Fido (Format Identification for Digital Objects). This first version runs on all platforms with Java 6 update 23 or later installed.
This week Bill Roberts, Asger Blekinge, Andy Jackson, Paul Wheatley, Bram van der Werf and I attended the DevCSI Developer Days in London. Next to the workshops, lightning talks, coding labs and Guru Sessions there were several challenges created by attending organizations. OPF also created two very interesting challenges.