Siegfried

Description
Siegried is a file format identification tool that, like DROID and Fido, is based on PRONOM. However, it uses a different pattern matching algorithm that offers different strengths and weaknesses to those other PRONOM based tools. A detailed description of the tool and why it was created can be found in this blog post. Besides, there is a more detailed description in terms of functionality on the Github Page of Siegfried.

Siegfried was first publicly released the 28th february 2014 in version 0.1.

User Experiences
The default output is yaml. This can be changed to csv or json.
 * ZBW:
 * The command line tool is very easy to handle.
 * Usual command: sf file.ext (will output in yaml)
 * Change output to csv: sf -csv file.ext
 * Change output to json: sf -json file.ext
 * It is also possible to save the output in an external file:
 * sf file.ext >output.yml
 * sf -csv file.ext >output.csv
 * sf -json file.ext >output.json

Development Activity
All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/richardlehane/siegfried/commits

Release Feed
Below the last 3 release feeds: https://github.com/richardlehane/siegfried/releases.atom

Activity Feed
Below the last 5 commits: https://github.com/richardlehane/siegfried/commits/master.atom