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| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
| EnCase eDiscovery | EnCase eDiscovery is the market leading e-discovery software that enables more efficient business process and significantly reduces legal risk and cost with a judicially accepted solution that provides everything from legal hold to first pass review and is scalable, defensible, and repeatable. |
| Eraser | Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. |
| EssArch | An OAIS-based digital archive system to include both PreIngest and PreAccess functions |
| ExactFile | Making sure that what you hash is what you get |
| Exactly | Packs data in BagIt bags and transfers them to/from remote location via FTP, SFTP |
| Explore2fs | Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. |
| FBCD (Farmer's Boot CD) | bootable CD with Linux and forensic tools |
| FCCU GNU/Linux Forensic Boot CD | bootable CD with Linux and forensic tools |
| FCIV | Generates and compares MD5 values stored in an XML file. |
| FIDO (Format Identification for Digital Objects) | A PRONOM based, command line, file format identification tool written in Python |
| FIDOO | A PRONOM based, online file format identification tool written in Javascript and HTML5 |
| FITS (File Information Tool Set) | FITS allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository. |
| Fedora Commons | Fedora provides the back-end foundation for digital repository systems responsible for managing and preserving all types of digital content. |
| File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester V2 | The File Analyzer is a general purpose desktop (and command line) tool designed to automate simple, file-based operations. The File Analyzer assembles a toolkit of tasks a user can perform. The tasks that have been written into the File Analyzer code base have been optimized for use by libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions. |
| File Format Identification Pronom | Perl API to analyze and handle droid (PRONOM) signatures |
| FileAlyzer | FileAlyzer allows a basic analysis of files (showing file properties and file contents in hex dump form) and is able to interpret common file contents like resources structures (like text, graphics, HTML, media and PE). |
| FileTrove | FileTrove indexes files and creates metadata from them. The single binary application walks a directory tree and identifies all regular files by type with Siegfried. |
| FileVerifier++ | Windows utility for verifying file contents |
| Filedriller | Filedriller walks a directory tree and identifies all regular files, creates hash sums and checks for files in the NSRL. Still in Beta. |
| Find It! Keep It! | Find It! Keep It! is a tool to save and organise web content. |
| Fine Free File Command | This is the home page for the open source implementation of the file(1) command that ships with every free operating system (OpenBSD, Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, etc. |
| Fixi | Fixi is a command-line utility that indexes, verifies, and updates checksum information for collections of files. |
| Fixity Pro | Fixity Pro is a desktop application for Windows and Mac that provides simple automated monitoring and reporting on the data integrity of your files that are stored on your computer, removable storage devices, and mounted network storage locations. Use Fixity Pro to schedule routine scans that will tell you if your files have been changed and if any files have been added, removed, or moved/renamed since the last scan that was performed. |
| FolderMatch | Compares two directory trees and flags up duplicates |
| Foremost | Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. |
| Forensic Acquisition Utilities | A collection of utilities and libraries intended for forensic or forensic-related investigative use in a modern Microsoft Windows environment. |
| FreeCommander | Split-screen file manager with desirable extras |
| Freeware Hex Editor XVI32 | XVI32 is a freeware hex editor running under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. |
| Fslint | Set of utilities to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem, such as duplicate files, empty directories, and bad file names. |
| GNU Diffutils | GNU Diffutils is a package of several programs related to finding differences between files. |
| GNU libextractor | GNU libextractor is a library used to extract meta data from files of arbitrary type. |
| GetDataBack | GetDataBack will recover your data if the hard drive's partition table, boot record, FAT/MFT or root directory are lost or damaged, data was lost due to a virus attack, the drive was formatted, fdisk has been run, a power failure has caused a system crash, files were lost due to a software failure, files were accidentally deleted. |
| GetDriveInfo2 | GetDriveInfo2 is a Win32 program that examines the optical and removable media drives currently mounted on a computer, and returns information about those devices (in the case of optical devices it also returns information about the any media currently mounted in the device). |
| Glacier (Amazon) | Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. |
| Google Cloud | Google Cloud Storage allows users to store, access, and manage their data. |
| Greens | ARK identifiers minter and resolver |
| Gvfs-info | gvfs-info - print information about files and directories |
| HP Integrated Archive Platform | The HP Integrated Archive Platform (HP IAP) was a solution for the long-term archival and disposition of information. |
| HTTrack2Arc | HTTrack2Arc is a tool that converts HTTrack crawls to ARC files, the file format used by the Internet Archive. |
| HashKeeper | Digital Evidence Laboratory specialists created the HashKeeper software in 1998 to expedite the analysis of electronic media by reducing the number of files to be analyzed during the course of an investigation. |
| Helix (e-fense) | bootable CD with Linux and forensic tools |
| Heritrix plug-in for rich media capture | The Rich Media Capture module (RMC), developed in the LiWA (Living Web Archives) project, is designed to enhance the capturing capabilities of the crawler, with regards to different multimedia content types. |
| HexEd.it | Browser-based Online and Offline Hex Editing. |
| HoliRisk | HoliRisk is a framework and online tool to support the development of a risk assessment based on principles from ISO31000. |
| Hoppla | Hoppla is an archiving solution that combines back-up and fully automated migration services for data collections in small office environments. |
| HxD | Free Hex- and Ram-Editor |
| I2 | i2 is a provider of intelligence and investigation management software for law enforcement, defense, national security and private sector organizations. |
| IBM Digital Asset Preservation Tool | IBM's Digital Asset Preservation Tool is a proof-of-concept demonstration of the Universal Virtual Computer solution that provides long-term access to JPEG and GIF87a files. |
| ICA-AtoM | ICA-AtoM allows organisations to create standards-based descriptions of their archival holdings and subsequently publish them to the Web. |
| ILookPI | ILookPI provides a fully programmable IDE environment with customizable tool capabilities. |
| IMAGE | IMAGE is a DOS application capable of generating either highly compressed or "flat" images for forensic analysis. |
| IN-SPIRE Visual Document Analysis | IN-SPIRE Visual Document Analysis is powerful information visualization software developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. |
| IRODS (integrated Rule Oriented Data Systems) | iRODS software was designed to allow curators utilising heterogeneous storage and computing facilities to define policies without being concerned with the technical detail of how the system implements those policies and without having to respond to changes in technical infrastructure. |
| ImpactStory | ImpactStory (previously Total-Impact) allows researchers and organisations to gather a wide range of impact metrics about multiple forms of scholarly output. |
| Index.dat Analyzer v2.5 | Index.dat Analyzer is a tool to view, examine and delete contents of index.dat files. |
| InfinaDyne | InfinaDyne's forensic products are focused on government and law enforcement examining various types of media and intent on collecting evidence in a thorough, secure and trustworthy manner. |
| Invenio | Invenio is a free software suite enabling you to run your own digital library or document repository on the web. |
| JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment) | JHOVE provides functions to perform format-specific identification, validation, and characterization of digital objects. |
| JHOVE2 | JHOVE2 allows data curators to characterise the digital objects in their repositories. |
| JPC | JPC is the fast pure Java x86 PC emulator. |
| JWAT | Java Web Archive Toolkit |
| JabRef | Reference and bibliographic data manager |
| Java library implementing Pairtree | The PAIRTREE LIBRARY is a software library that supports the mapping between identifiers and filepaths according to the Pairtree Specification. |
| KEA (Keyphrase Extraction Algorithm) | KEA is an algorithm for extracting keyphrases from text documents. |
| KRDS (Keeping Research Data Safe) Benefits Analysis Toolkit | Benefits Analysis Toolkit guides users through a process of identifying, assessing, and communicating the benefits from investing resources in the curation and long-term preservation of research data. |
| Karen's Directory Printer | Karen's Directory Printer can print the name of every file on a drive, along with the file's size, date and time of last modification, and attributes (Read-Only, Hidden, System and Archive). |
| Keith Humphreys' PhraseRate | PhraseRate is a program, developed by Keith Humphreys, for extracting a set of meaningful, attractive keywords and key phrases from a web page describing the content of that page. |
| Kernel-based virtual machine | KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). |
| LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) | LOCKSS software allows libraries to create preserved digital collections out of materials that would otherwise be accessible only through a licensed academic subscription. |
| Legacy Locker | Legacy Locker is a safe, secure repository for your vital digital property that lets you grant access to online assets for friends and loved ones in the event of loss, death, or disability. |
| Levels of Born-Digital Access | A tiered set of recommendations that help guide organizations in the planning and implementation of born-digital access provisions. |
| Libewf | Libewf is a library for support of the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF), it support both the SMART (EWF-S01) and EnCase (EWF-E01) format. |
| Libmagic-dev | This library can be used to classify files according to magic number tests. |
| Library (xklb) | Media indexing multi-tool |
| Libsharedmime | This is an implementation for libsharedmime. |
| Linux-VServer | Linux-VServer provides virtualization for GNU/Linux systems. |
| MD5Checker | Lightweight Windows Desktop application to create and check MD5 Digests for one or several files. |
| METS Reader Writer | Python library for processing and outputting METS/PREMIS XML according to the Archivematica METS profile. |
| MP3::Tag | MP3::Tag is a module for reading tags of MP3 audio files. |
| MRU-Blaster | MRU-Blaster is a program made to do one large task - detect and clean MRU (most recently used) lists on your computer. |
| MSIL Disassembler (Ildasm.exe) | The MSIL Disassembler is a companion tool to the MSIL Assembler (Ilasm. |
| McAfee Free Tools | Free Tools [See specifically Foresnic Tools] |
| Md5deep and hashdeep | md5deep is a set of programs to compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Tiger, or Whirlpool message digests on an arbitrary number of files. hashdeep is a program to compute, match, and audit hashsets. |
| Md5sum Unix command | md5sum computes a 128-bit checksum (or fingerprint or message-digest) for each specified file. |
| Md5summer | MD5summer is an application for Microsoft Windows 9x, NT, ME, 2000 and XP which generates and verifies md5 checksums. |
| Mendeley | Mendeley is a combination web service and desktop application that allows users to create, manage, and share collections of references. |
| Merritt Repository Service | Merritt is a cost-effective repository service from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that lets the UC community manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. |
| Metadata Extraction Tool | Metadata Extraction Tool automatically extracts a limited set of metadata from the headers of digital files. |
| Metadata transformer | A simple tool for creating new CSV and HTML reports based on the metadata files generated by the Data Accessioner |
| Metaproducts | Metaproducts offers several commercial capture and off-line browsing tools. |
| Micr'Olonys | Micr’Olonys is the software solution for long-term passive digital archiving on film and paper. |
| Microsoft Office 2003 Add-in: Word Redaction v1.2 | Use the Word 2003 Redaction Add-in to hide text within Microsoft Office Word 2003 documents. |
| Microsoft Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data | With this add-in you can permanently remove hidden data and collaboration data, such as change tracking and comments, from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint files. |
| Minimum Preservation Tool | The Minimum Preservation Tool (MPT) can be used to create an interim preservation storage environment for files awaiting preservation in a longer term repository solution. It supports checksum generation, fixity checking, and replication across two or more storage nodes. |
| Mink | Chrome extension that uses Memento to indicate that a page a user is viewing on the live web has an archived copy and to give the user access to the copy |
| Moonshine | Download legacy file formats from the UK Web Archive and Warclight services |
| Mplayer | A movie player that runs on many systems, supports a wide range of formats and supports a wide range of output drivers |
| Mutlivalent | Multivalent works on digital documents research and development. |
| NARA File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester | NARA File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester allows a user to analyze the contents of a file system or external drive and generates statistics about the contents of the contained directories. |
| NARA Preservation Planning Framework | NARA complete Preservation Plan collection for all their object types, requesting your interaction. |