The next OPF Hackathon - A Practical Approach to Preservation Systems - will focus on preservation workflows and systems. It will consider a large number of widely available tools that are being used both by the community and in industry.
Beginning of this year we reported on first results of a joint Archives New Zealand and University of Freiburg data recovery project of a set of 5.25 inch floppy disks from the early 1990s. After recovering the raw bitstreams from the floppy disks with a special hardware device the resulting image files were sent over to Freiburg for further analysis.
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.
We (Exlibris) are part of SCAPE for already a year. We joined the project as a 'Digital Preservation Commercial Company' (actually – the only one among the partners – off course that commercial companies are in, but not companies that produce a full scale Digital Preservation solution).
This will be my shortest blog post ever. Following up on my previous blog post on a prototype JP2 validator and properties extractor (jpylyzer), there is now a comprehensive User Manual of the tool. Just follow the link below and get the PDF file that is listed under 'Download Packages':