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Siegfried – a PRONOM-based, file format identification tool

Ok. I know what you’re thinking. Do we really need another PRONOM-based, file format identification tool?

Submitted by Richard Lehane on 27 September 2014 – 7:52am

We are changing our name to the Open Preservation Foundation.

In November we will:

No worries

Thanks Tyler. I’d be careful about saying that siegfried is “more intelligent”: It takes a…

Richard Lehane 1 week 4 days ago
Thank you

We also have been struggling with PDF/A files and their identification. I too am forced to use a…

Tyler Thorsted 1 week 4 days ago
Thinking along similar lines

Thanks Andy and Chris, I was thinking along similar lines myself. Years ago I used to work on the…

Johan van der Knijff 2 weeks 6 days ago
Neat blogs!

Thanks for the links Dirk! Before my time here, I hadn’t read them before. An interesting point…

Ross Spencer 2 weeks 6 days ago
I had the same thought – I

I had the same thought – I was wondering whether we were seeing something like the difference…

Chris Adams 3 weeks 2 days ago
Floating-point arithmetic and reproduciblity

For lossy JP2, parts of the decoding process may depend on floating-point operations. Certainly,…

Andy Jackson 3 weeks 2 days ago
Cool stuff!

Archive New Zealand seems to be the main actor to come up with weird old floppies! I’m not…

Dirk von Suchodoletz 3 weeks 3 days ago
Validating migration and what we expect to see happen now…

Hi Euan,There are a couple of things we’d like to do to improve this process, and validation at…

Ross Spencer 3 weeks 5 days ago