Content Profiling

Function definition: Tools that build a profile of the characteristics of digital content, typically by combining or analysing a number of sources of information such as extracted metadata and file format identifications.

Lifecycle stage: Preservation Planning

Tools for this function

Tool	Purpose	ToolStatus
Autopsy Digital Forensics	Open source, free digital forensics tool
Brunnhilde	Siegfried-based characterization of directories and disk images
C3PO	C3PO is a content profiling tool for visualization and preservation analysis
Crazy-fast-image-scan	A script to scan media very quickly to find out what kind of content it contains
DROID Siegfried Sqlite Analysis Engine	Format Identification Analysis and Reporting
Demystify	Format Identification, Analysis and Reporting
EPADD	ePADD is a software package developed by Stanford University's Special Collections & University Archives that supports archival processes around the appraisal, ingest, processing, discovery, and delivery of email archives.
TOMES (Transforming Online Mail with Embedded Semantics)	A package of open source tools for handling the preservation of government email records
Web Archive Discovery	Indexing and discovery tools for web archives.
Yara	YARA is a tool that allows the identification of files that match user-defined textual or binary patterns