Difference between revisions of "Siegfried"

	A PRONOM based, command line, file format identification tool using Aho Corasick matching and no buffer limits.
Homepage:	http://www.itforarchivists.com/siegfried
License:	Apache License 2.0
Function:	File Format Identification

Latest revision as of 14:24, 25 November 2022

Description[edit]

Siegried is a file format identification tool that, like DROID and Fido, is based on PRONOM. However, it uses a different pattern matching algorithm that offers different strengths and weaknesses to those other PRONOM based tools. A detailed description of the tool and why it was created can be found in this blog post. Besides, there is a more detailed description in terms of functionality on the Github Page of Siegfried.

Siegfried was first publicly released the 28th february 2014 in version 0.1.

User Experiences[edit]

ZBW:
- The command line tool is very easy to handle.
  The default output is yaml. This can be changed to csv or json.
  - Usual command: sf file.ext (will output in yaml)
  - Change output to csv: sf -csv file.ext
  - Change output to json: sf -json file.ext
- It is also possible to save the output in an external file:
  - sf file.ext >output.yml
  - sf -csv file.ext >output.csv
  - sf -json file.ext >output.json

Development Activity[edit]

All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/richardlehane/siegfried/commits

Release Feed[edit]

Below the last 3 release feeds:

2025-03-01 04:42:46: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/v1.11.2 Version 1.11.2]; by richardlehane
2025-01-23 01:05:20: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/v1.11.2-rc1-wikiprov Version 1.11.2-rc1-wikiprov]; by richardlehane
2024-07-15 02:36:25: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/v1.11.2-rc0 Version 1.11.2-rc0]; by richardlehane

Activity Feed[edit]

Below the last 5 commits:

2025-04-05 02:42:24: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/1dacee40397f5f3354595e78d0d029e04f4997f5 return error for temp file failure and allow changing the default str…]; by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane
2025-03-01 04:35:18: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/16c65db8cb5c4d6758205e5415f254920e7f483d bump version and rebuild sigs]; by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane
2025-03-01 02:53:46: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/07a906f88f61664e6267cca4d901c0923c875061 don't cache droid path, fix tests]; by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane
2025-03-01 01:47:13: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/e9934796452066f89e4f096e21dece243020a461 update wikidata definitions]; by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane
2025-03-01 01:11:52: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/99440ba7d0ee14da28de7d0b89083fc8aded3cee Merge pull request #270 from richardlehane/dev/no-history]; by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane

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 Siegried is a file format identification tool that, like DROID and Fido, is based on PRONOM. However, it uses a different pattern matching algorithm that offers different strengths and weaknesses to those other PRONOM based tools. A detailed description of the tool and why it was created can be found in [http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2014-09-27-siegfried-pronom-based-file-format-identification-tool this blog post].
 Besides, there is a more detailed description in terms of functionality on the [https://github.com/richardlehane/siegfried Github Page of Siegfried].
+Siegfried was first publicly released the 28th february 2014 in version 0.1.
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