Editing DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)

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|purpose=DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) is a software tool developed to perform automated batch identification of file formats.
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|homepage=http://digital-preservation.github.io/droid/
|license=BSD License
|platforms=Java 6 Standard Edition
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[[Category:File Format Identification]]
[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]


= Description =
DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) is a software tool developed to perform automated batch identification of file formats. DROID is designed to meet the fundamental requirement of any digital repository to be able to identify the precise format of all stored digital objects, and to link that identification to a central registry of technical information about that format and its dependencies. Developed by NARA. Written in Java, XML.

= User Experiences =
* [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/daat_file_format_tools_report.pdf Digital Asset Assessment Tool - Assessment of file format testing tools].
* Comparing how [[Apache Tika]] and DROID perform HTML identification: [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive/2014/07/how-much-of-the-uk-html-is-valid.html How much of the UK's HTML is valid?]


= Development Activity =

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