Quality Assurance

Function definition: Tools that support quality checking of digital resources, identifying damaged, incomplete or low quality data. Typically used to identify damage introduced via processes such as format migration or digitisation.

Lifecycle stage: Ingest,Preservation Action

Tools for this function

Tool	Purpose
AsTiffTagViewer	AsTiffTagViewer is a TIFF Tag Viewer application.
Bad Peggy	Scans for damaged images and photos.
BitCurator	The BitCurator Environment is an Ubuntu Linux distribution geared to the needs of archivists and librarians. It includes a suite of open source digital forensics and data analysis tools to help collecting institutions process born-digital materials.
Checkit tiff	a tool to validate TIFF files against given configuration profile
DV Analyzer	DV Analyzer is a technical quality control and reporting tool that examines DV streams in order to report errors in the tape-to-file transfer process.
DVRescue	DVRescue is archivist-made software that supports data migration from DV tapes into digital files suitable for long-term preservation.
DbDIPview	Framework for packaging the database Representation Information and pre-configured user-friendly access. Different combinations of Content Data Objects are supported by an automated deployment mechanism. Enables access to the archived databases in the archive reading room for non-technical users.
Developer Tools in QA: Novice's Toolkit	A collaborative document which non-developers can adapt to record QA methods using built-in browser developer tools.
Docworks	Document digitization workflow software
EmbARC	internal file metadata management including embedding and validation
FFAStrans	Task automation engine, mostly used in audio and video visual content management.
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.
Fingerdet	QA tool for detecting fingers on digitised pages
Fq	Tool, language and decoders for working with binary data.
GNU Diffutils	GNU Diffutils is a package of several programs related to finding differences between files.
Goobi	Workflow Management Tool
IMacros	iMacros makes it easy to test web-based applications.
ImageVerifier	ImageVerifier (IV for short) traverses a hierarchy of folders looking for image files to verify. It can verify TIFFs, JPEGs. PSDs, DNGs, and non-DNG raws (e.g., NEF, CR2).
Jp2StructCheck	Simple JP2 file structure checker
Jpylyzer	JP2 validation + properties extraction
KOST-Simy	The KOST-Simy application is used for Compare Images.
KOST-Val	KOST-Val is an open source validator for different file formats (TIFF, SIARD, PDF/A, JP2, JPEG) and Submission Information Package (SIP).
Library (xklb)	Media indexing multi-tool with more than 70 CLI subcommands
MP3val	MP3val is a small, high-speed, free software tool for checking MPEG audio files' integrity.
Matchbox Tool	Matchbox: Duplicate detection tool for digital document collections.
Mdqc	Tool for managing and comparing digital asset metadata
NARA Video Frame Analyzer	NARA Video Frame Analyzer analyzes technical properties of individual frames of a video file in order to detect quality issues within digitized video files.
Namalysator	Tool for METS/ALTO validation and quality control
NumaHOP	Platform for digitization projects management
Pagelyzer	Suite of tools for detecting changes in web pages and their rendering
QCTools	Digitized analog video analysis
ReACT (Resource Audit and Comparison Tool)	A file audit and comparison tool using Microsoft Excel and VBA.
SIARD-VAL	SIARD-Val is an open source validator for SIARD files.
SIARDexcerpt	SIARDexcerpt is a Java-based application that searches and extracts individual records of SIARD files.
SobekCM	SobekCM is a digital repository and digital scholarship/publishing system which enables easy deposit, preservation, and access for all types of digital content, tailored to the needs of galleries, libraries, archives, museums, scholars, and researchers.
TIFF-Val	TIFF-Val is an open source validator for TIFF files.
XcorrSound	The xcorrSound package compares sound waves using cross correlation.