FIDO (Format Identification for Digital Objects) - Revision history

JvdNat at 14:28, 22 April 2021

2021-04-22T14:28:44Z

2017-03-27T13:40:46Z

fido logo

2016-05-25T08:07:32Z

2014-12-01T15:14:17Z

Description linke to FIDOO in COPTR

2014-12-01T15:11:18Z

Structure

2014-12-01T15:09:38Z

Development Activity: Release and Activity separated

2014-11-28T13:04:19Z

Fixing up OPF name change links.

2014-11-03T15:47:09Z

Description

2014-11-01T13:25:13Z

2014-11-01T13:24:04Z

Prwheatley moved page Fido to FIDO (Format Identification for Digital Objects): Amended to use standard naming convention

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-{{Infobox_tool
+{{Infobox tool
 |purpose=A PRONOM based, command line, file format identification tool written in Python
 |homepage=http://www.openpreservation.org/software/fido
 |license=Apache 2.0 Open Source License
-|platforms=
+|function=Metadata Extraction, File Format Identification
 }}
+{{Infobox tool details}}
 = Description =
 FIDO (Format Identification for Digital Objects) is a simple format identification CLI tool for digital objects that uses [[DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)#PRONOM|PRONOM]] signatures converted to regular expressions. The functionality of FIDO is similar to [[DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)]] without the GUI.

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 {{Infobox_tool
 |purpose=A PRONOM based, command line, file format identification tool written in Python
-|image=
+|image=Fido1-75x36.jpg
 |homepage=http://www.openpreservation.org/software/fido
 |license=Apache 2.0 Open Source License

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 = Description =
-FIDO (Format Identification for Digital Objects) is a simple format identification CLI tool for digital objects that uses [[DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)#PRONOM|PRONOM]] signatures converted to regular expressions. Functionally of FIDO can be compared with [[DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)]], sans the GUI.
+FIDO (Format Identification for Digital Objects) is a simple format identification CLI tool for digital objects that uses [[DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)#PRONOM|PRONOM]] signatures converted to regular expressions. The functionality of FIDO is similar to [[DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)]] without the GUI.
 FIDO is free, Apache 2.0 licensed, easy to install, and runs on any platform with Python installed. Most importantly, FIDO is very fast.

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 FIDO is able to identify container based (compound) formats such as Office documents and includes functionality to update PRONOM signatures.
-[http://www.techmaurice.com/fidoo/ FIDOO] is webpage based service that acts as a simple to use front end to FIDO.
+[[FIDOO]] is webpage based service that acts as a simple to use front end to FIDO.
 === History ===

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-== Development Activity ==
+= Development Activity =
 <!-- Provide *evidence* of development activity of the tool. For example, RSS feeds for code issues or commits. -->
 All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/openpreserve/fido
-==== Release Feed ====
+=== Release Feed ===
 Below the last 3 release feeds:
 <rss max=3>https://github.com/openpreserve/fido/releases.atom</rss>
-==== Activity Feed====
+=== Activity Feed ===
 Below the last 5 commits:
 <rss max=5>https://github.com/openpreserve/fido/commits/master.atom</rss>
+.

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 |purpose=A PRONOM based, command line, file format identification tool written in Python
 |image=
-|homepage=http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/software/fido
+|homepage=http://www.openpreservation.org/software/fido
 |license=Apache 2.0 Open Source License
 |platforms=
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 === History ===
-FIDO was originally developed in 2010 by Adam Farquhar of British Library. The tool has been adopted by the Open Planets Foundation in 2011 and is currently maintained by Maurice de Rooij of the National Archives of the Netherlands (NANETH). In October 2011 NANETH has succesfully implemented FIDO as a webservice in the Dutch e-Depot.
+FIDO was originally developed in 2010 by Adam Farquhar of British Library. The tool has been adopted by the Open Preservation Foundation in 2011 and is currently maintained by Maurice de Rooij of the National Archives of the Netherlands (NANETH). In October 2011 NANETH has succesfully implemented FIDO as a webservice in the Dutch e-Depot.
 === Future===
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 === Release and Activity Feed ===
-<rss max=7>https://github.com/openplanets/fido/commits/master.atom</rss>
+<rss max=7>https://github.com/openpreserve/fido/commits/master.atom</rss>

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	FIDO is able to identify container based (compound) formats such as Office documents and includes functionality to update PRONOM signatures.		FIDO is able to identify container based (compound) formats such as Office documents and includes functionality to update PRONOM signatures.
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		+	[http://www.techmaurice.com/fidoo/ FIDOO] is webpage based service that acts as a simple to use front end to FIDO.

	=== History ===		=== History ===