Siegfried

A PRONOM based, command line, file format identification tool using Aho Corasick matching and no buffer limits.
Homepage:	http://www.itforarchivists.com/siegfried
License:	Apache License 2.0
Function:	File Format Identification

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

• ZBW:
  • The command line tool is very easy to handle.
    The default output is yaml. This can be changed to csv or json.
    • 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:

2023-06-02 08:41:49

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/v1.11.0-rc5 Version 1.11.0-rc5]

by github-actions[bot]

2023-05-31 11:05:26

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/v1.11.0-rc4 v1.11.0-rc4]

by richardlehane

2023-05-31 10:37:16

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/v1.11.0-rc3 v1.11.0-rc3]

by richardlehane

Activity Feed

Below the last 5 commits:

2023-04-24 18:05:44

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/637f684eddcb8194866e0c4e8a65ccc191238042 make tests pass again]

by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane

2023-04-24 17:08:34

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/3b742e982170f5fcb009b41301753f8d3dd22152 v1.10.1]

by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane

2023-04-24 17:08:09

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/cf4ad6c02b2c4e8b57f0f6ce66663ca6fdf6755d disable CGO for deb and linux binaries]

by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane

2023-04-24 16:46:12

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a0d4045248260b98068419221276dc12b987e3fc fix identifications not returned for some files when new -multi droid…]

by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane

2023-04-24 16:45:00

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/4a9e71f935d5cb6f4e52cb01462bad37a1c5b4f9 test equality droid and reports priority maps]

by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane