DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) - Revision history

Andrew N. Jackson: Update status

2026-04-18T14:24:01Z

Update status

2026-04-18T14:22:28Z

Fix up broken PRONOM URLs

2021-08-17T14:04:31Z

2021-06-09T13:36:10Z

User Experiences

2021-04-20T19:53:59Z

Added links to Function and/or Content Type

2017-10-30T10:37:46Z

Development Activity

2017-03-15T10:57:39Z

2016-05-25T08:19:32Z

2015-07-06T06:48:35Z

User Experiences: Add Institution to experience

2015-01-22T14:52:59Z

User Experiences: FITS

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

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 |formats_in=PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies)
 |function=File Format Identification, Metadata Extraction
 }}
 = Description =
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 The website is oriented towards manual browsing, but note that each PRONOM registry entry as a permalink, like this:
-     http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/fmt/579
+     https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/579
 and furthermore, by appending '.xml' to the URL for any entry, the data can be recovered as XML:
-     http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/fmt/579.xml
+     https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/579.xml
 = User Experiences =
 * [https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/tool-demos/droid-demo Tool demo with videos] in the [https://www.dpconline.org/handbook DPC Handbook]
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 === About Formats ===
 DROID do only read the format itself, not the spesification as such

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 |license=BSD License
 |platforms=Java 6 Standard Edition
 |function=File Format Identification, Metadata Extraction
 }}
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 Below the last 5 commits:
 <rss max=5>https://github.com/digital-preservation/droid/commits/master.atom</rss>

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      http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/fmt/579.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?]
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 * '''KOST-CECO:''' Used in [[KOST-Val]] for the file format identification. For performance and granularity reasons an own SignatureFile is used instead of the official PRONOM registry.
 * '''FITS (File Information Tool Set):''' Used in [[FITS (File Information Tool Set)|FITS]]
-−
 = Development Activity =
 All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/digital-preservation/droid/commits

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-{{Infobox_tool
+{{Infobox tool
 |purpose=DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) is a software tool developed to perform automated batch identification of file formats.
 |homepage=http://digital-preservation.github.io/droid/
 |license=BSD License
 |platforms=Java 6 Standard Edition
 }}
 = 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.
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 Below the last 5 commits:
 <rss max=5>https://github.com/digital-preservation/droid/commits/master.atom</rss>

← Older revision		Revision as of 10:57, 15 March 2017
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	* [[Nanite]] and [[Fido]] identification tools		* [[Nanite]] and [[Fido]] identification tools
		+	* [[Siegfried]] identification tool

	Although the information and website are made freely available under the Open Government License, the underlying software engine that powers PRONOM is proprietary.		Although the information and website are made freely available under the Open Government License, the underlying software engine that powers PRONOM is proprietary.

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 = Development Activity =
 {{Infobox_tool_details
 |ohloh_id=droid
 }}

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 * [http://openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2014-06-03-analysis-engine-droid-csv-export An Analysis Engine for the DROID CSV Export]
 * Used in [[KOST-Val]] for the file format identification. For performance and granularity reasons an own SignatureFile is used instead of the official PRONOM registry.
 = Development Activity =