Create or Receive (Acquire)

Lifecycle stage definition: Functions that support the DCC Lifecycle Stage defined as "Create data including administrative, descriptive, structural and technical metadata. Preservation metadata may also be added at the time of creation. Receive data, in accordance with documented collecting policies, from data creators, other archives, repositories or data centres, and if required assign appropriate metadata."

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Functions within this lifecycle stage

Function	Definition
Appraisal	Tools that enable the assessment of content against in order to decide on it's relevance or appropriateness for preservation
Data capture and Deposit	Tools that enable the capture and deposit of data.
Disk Imaging	Tools that enable the capture, viewing or extraction of contents of a disk image (which is a computer file containing the contents and structure of a disk volume or an entire data storage device, such as a hard drive or floppy disk).
File Copy	Tools that support the copying of files from one storage location to another, typically with facilities to verify the completeness of the copy and enable resumption of copying after an interruption.
OCR	Tools that support the generation of text from bitmap images, otherwise known as Optical Character Recognition
Transfer	Tools that support transfer of packaged digital resources from one organization to another.
Web Capture	Tools that support the capture of data from the world wide web, by "crawling" links between resources or other approaches.
Workflow and Lab Notebook Management	Tools that support the capture and management of research data as well as the details of the research activities which generated them.

Tools for this lifecycle stage

Tool	Function	Purpose
7-Zip	Rendering Transfer Fixity	7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio, and encryption and fixity check capabilities
AFF Open Source Computer Forensics Software	Disk Imaging	Tools for the creation of disk images, used in conjunction with the AFF open and extensible file format to store disk images and associated metadata.
ANTS (Archives Network Transfer System)	Transfer	ANTS runs on a Windows desktop and is designed to package digital records with contextual metadata and transfer them to an institutional archives.
Aaru Data Preservation Suite	Backup Disk Imaging Metadata Extraction	Media dump software and disc image manager
ArchiFiltre	File Management Appraisal	Overview of folder trees with fine diagrams
Archifiltre-Mails	Appraisal Metadata Processing Annotation Data capture and Deposit Transfer	Archifiltre-Mails connects to email containers and visualizes their content, helping you in exploring and adding metadata.
Archive-It	Service Web Capture	Archive-It is the leading web archiving service for collecting and accessing cultural heritage on the web. It is a service provided by the Internet Archive.
Archive::BagIt	Fixity File Copy	BagIt API for Perl
ArchiveBox	Web Capture Personal Archiving	ArchiveBox is an open source tool that lets organizations & individuals archive both public & private web content while retaining control over their data.
ArchiveFacebook	Web Capture	ArchiveFacebook is a Firefox extension which allows individuals to save and manage Facebook web content.
Artivity	Data capture and Deposit Workflow and Lab Notebook Management	A tool for capturing contextual data produced during the creative process of artists and designers while working on a computer.
Autopsy Digital Forensics	Appraisal Content Profiling De-Duplication Disk Imaging Forensic	Open source, free digital forensics tool
BIL (BagIt Library)	Fixity File Copy	BagIt Library is a Java software library that supports the creation, manipulation and validation of bags.
BagIt Transfer Utilities	Fixity File Copy	BagIt transfer Utilities are a collection of tools developed for the purpose of validation and transfer of bags.
Bagger	Fixity Transfer	GUI application to facilitate the creation and verification of BagIt bags.
Brozzler	Web Capture	From GitHub (https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler): Brozzler is a distributed web crawler that uses a real browser (Chrome or Chromium) to fetch pages and embedded URLs and to extract links. Brozzler is designed to work in conjunction with warcprox for web archiving.
Brunnhilde	Metadata Extraction Content Profiling Appraisal	Siegfried-based characterization of directories and disk images
CDRDAO (CDR Disk At Once)	Disk Imaging	Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents.
CINCH	Web Capture	CINCH (Capture INgest and CHecksum Tool) facilitates batch downloading and ingest of Internet-accessible documents and/or images to a central repository.
CND3D	Active Data Storage Storage Managing Active Research Data Data capture and Deposit	Store, Preserve and publish 3D objects produced in Digital Humanities Research
CRunch	Workflow and Lab Notebook Management Managing Active Research Data	cRunch provides an infrastructure for exploratory data analysis with the statistical programming language and environment R
CloneCD	Disk Imaging	CloneCD is the perfect tool to make backup copies of your music and data CDs, regardless of copy protection.
ContextMiner	Metadata Processing Web Capture	ContextMiner is a framework to collect, analyze, and present the contextual information along with the data.
Cp Unix command	File Copy	cp copies files (or, optionally, directories). Part of GNU coreutils.
Cryptcat	File Copy	Cryptcat is a lightweight version of netcat with integrated transport encryption capabilities.
Curate.Us	Web Capture	With a simple click of the mouse, you can create visually compelling clips and quotes of web content that are easily embedded in blog posts, email, forums, and websites.
Czkawka	De-Duplication File Management Appraisal	Czkawka is a simple, fast and free app to remove unnecessary files from your computer.
DART (Digital Archivist's Resource Tool)	Storage File Management Fixity Transfer	Provides both a GUI and a command-line interface for packaging files and uploading them to remote repositories.
DArcMail	Data capture and Deposit Access Appraisal	Processing and access to email accounts
DIMAG IngestList	Metadata Extraction Transfer	Accompanies ingest process from donor to archive, logs process steps.
Dc3dd for computer forensics	Disk Imaging Forensic	dc3dd is a patched version of GNU dd with a number of features useful for computer forensics.
Dcfldd	File Management Forensic File Copy	dcfldd is an enhanced version of GNU dd with features useful for forensics and security.
Dd Unix command	File Copy	This page gives information on using the dd Unix command.
Dd rescue	File Recovery Disk Imaging	dd_rescue is suitable for rescuing data from a medium with errors, i.
DeepArc	File Format Migration Web Capture	Intended for preserving web sites from the back-end, this is a database-to-XML curation tool.
DiPS (Digital Preservation Solution)	Access Active Data Storage File Format Identification File Format Migration File Management Metadata Extraction Preservation System Secure Deletion Service Storage Transfer Validation Workflow	DiPS (OAIS compliant Digital Preservation Solution)
Disk2FDI	Backup Disk Imaging Forensic Personal Archiving	Disk2FDI is a professional disk imaging software designed to create binary images of floppy disks to the Formatted Disk Image (FDI) file format, as well as sector-based standard formats.
DiskFormatID	Disk Imaging File Format Identification	Identify floppy disk formats from kryoflux stream files
Disktype	Metadata Extraction Disk Imaging	Tool for detecting the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes.
Docuteam packer	Appraisal Data capture and Deposit File Management Fixity Metadata Processing	Creates and edits SIPs
Docworks	OCR Workflow Quality Assurance	Document digitization workflow software
Double Commander	Fixity File Copy Batch Rename File Management De-Duplication	Open source file manager with two panels side by side
DriveImage XML	Disk Imaging	DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives.
Duke Data Accessioner	File Copy File Format Identification Metadata Extraction Transfer Validation	Data Accessioner provides a graphical user interface to aid in migrating data from physical media to a dedicated file server, documenting the process and using MD5 checksums to identify any errors introduced in transfer.
EPADD	Metadata Processing Metadata Extraction Content Profiling Access Appraisal	ePADD is a software package developed by Stanford University's Special Collections & University Archives that supports archival processes around the appraisal, ingest, processing, discovery, and delivery of email archives.
Easy CD-DA Extractor	File Format Migration Metadata Extraction Disk Imaging	Easy CD-DA Extractor is CD Ripper, Music Converter, Audio Converter, Metadata Editor, and CD/DVD burning software.
Exact Audio Copy	File Format Migration Metadata Extraction Disk Imaging	Exact Audio Copy is an audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives on Windows only.
Exactly	Transfer	Packs data in BagIt bags and transfers them to/from remote location via FTP, SFTP
FC5025	Data capture and Deposit	Device Side Data's FC5025 USB 5.25" floppy controller plugs into any computer's USB port and enables you to attach a 5.25" floppy drive.
FCIV	Fixity Transfer	Generates and compares MD5 values stored in an XML file.
Find It! Keep It!	Web Capture	Find It! Keep It! is a tool to save and organise web content.
FreeCommander	File Management De-Duplication Fixity File Copy	Split-screen file manager with desirable extras
GImageReader	OCR	A customisable GUI for Tesseract
GNU Wget	Web Capture	Non-interactive network downloader
GetDriveInfo2	Disk Imaging	GetDriveInfo2 is a Win32 program that examines the optical and removable media drives currently mounted on a computer, and returns information about those devices (in the case of optical devices it also returns information about the any media currently mounted in the device).
Goobi	Workflow OCR Planning Quality Assurance	Workflow Management Tool
HTTrack	Web Capture	HTTrack is a website copying utility.
Heritrix	Web Capture	Heritrix is an open-source web crawler, allowing users to target websites they wish to include in a collection and to harvest an instance of each site.
Heritrix plug-in for rich media capture	Web Capture	The Rich Media Capture module (RMC), developed in the LiWA (Living Web Archives) project, is designed to enhance the capturing capabilities of the crawler, with regards to different multimedia content types.
IMAGE	Disk Imaging	IMAGE is a DOS application capable of generating either highly compressed or "flat" images for forensic analysis.
IMacros	Quality Assurance Web Capture	iMacros makes it easy to test web-based applications.
IsoBuster	Disk Imaging	Recover data from CD, DVD, BD, HDD, Flash drive, USB stick, media card, SD and SSD.
Kepler	Workflow and Lab Notebook Management Managing Active Research Data	Kepler is a scientific workflow modelling and management system that enables users, regardless of programming experience, to set up data analysis pipelines.
Khtml2png	Web Capture	khtml2png is a command line program to create screenshots of webpages.
Kraken	OCR	Open Source turn-key OCR system forked from ocropus
KryoFlux	Disk Imaging	Floppy disk controller software that accompanies a KryoFlux drive
LabTrove	Workflow and Lab Notebook Management Managing Active Research Data	LabTrove is a blogging platform specifically designed for use in a research environment.
Library (xklb)	File Management Quality Assurance Web Capture	Media indexing multi-tool
Limb Processing	Metadata Processing OCR	Software for processing, enhancing and converting cultural heritage into digital cultural heritage
Lunas	Storage File Copy	A syncing cli tool that can handle more than two directories locally and remotely
MailExtract	Transfer	Extract Emails from many kinds of Mailbox formats
Metaproducts	Web Capture	Metaproducts offers several commercial capture and off-line browsing tools.
Micr'Olonys	Storage Access Passive Data Storage Backup Transfer File Recovery	Micr’Olonys is the software solution for long-term passive digital archiving on film and paper.
MyExperiment	Workflow and Lab Notebook Management Managing Active Research Data Academic Social Networking Workflow	myExperiment is an online social networking service aimed at scientific researchers; the site fosters collaboration by allowing members to share scientific workflows, experiment plans, and other digital objects.
NetarchiveSuite	Web Capture	NetarchiveSuite is a web archiving software package designed to plan, schedule and run web harvests of parts of the Internet.
NumaHOP	Quality Assurance OCR	Platform for digitization projects management
NutchWAX	Web Capture	NutchWAX is software for indexing ARC files (archived Web sites gathered using Heritrix) for full text search.
OSFMount	Disk Imaging Forensic	disk image file mounting
Optical-media-check	Disk Imaging	Collates information into a CSV from log files for a batch optical media rip
Package Handler	File Management Metadata Processing Personal Archiving Validation Appraisal	View, create, edit, and validate Swiss archival packages
PageVault	Web Capture	pageVault supports the archiving of all unique responses generated by a web server.
Paranoia	Disk Imaging	"Use your CDROM drive to read audio tracks.... and have it actually work right!"
Pearl Crescent Page Saver	Web Capture	Pearl Crescent Page Saver is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you capture images of web pages, including Flash content.
PhotoRescue	Disk Imaging File Recovery	PhotoRescue is a picture and data recovery solution for digital film - sd cards, compact flash, memory sticks, microdrive, etc.
Power ISO	Disk Imaging	PowerISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file processing tool, which allows you to open, extract, create, edit, compress, encrypt, split and convert ISO files, and mount these files with internal virtual drive.
QPxTool	Disk Imaging	With QPxTool you can measure the quality of CDs and DVDs.
RARC (ARC replicator)	Web Capture	rARC is a distributed system that enables Internet users to provide storage space from their computers to replicate small parts of the archived data stored in the central repository of the Web archive.
RATOM	Appraisal Discovery Metadata Extraction	Review, Appraisal, and Triage of Mail (RATOM) is software to assist archives and other collecting organizations with email analysis, selection, and appraisal tasks
RODA-In	Transfer Fixity Appraisal	The tool creates SIPs from files and folders available on the local file system.
Rocfl	File Copy Storage	rocfl is a command line utility for interacting with OCFL repositories on the local filesystem or in S3.
SPARQLing Unicorn QGIS Plugin	Data capture and Deposit Discovery Web Capture File Format Migration	Plugin for QGIS. Fetches data from Wikidata and other Linked Data SPARQL endpoints and adds a new layer in a QGIS project. Just insert a SPARQL query for Geo-Items and get a new vector layer into QGIS.
SafeBack	Disk Imaging	SafeBack is used to create mirror-image (bit-stream) backup files of hard disks or to make a mirror-image copy of an entire hard disk drive or partition.
SafeMover	Data capture and Deposit Transfer Fixity	Python tool to support the overtly "safe" copying of files from one location to another. Uses fixity, and OS file system metadata.
Screen-scraper	Data capture and Deposit Web Capture	screen-scraper is a tool for extracting data from websites.
SiteStory	Web Capture	SiteStory is a transactional web archive. It archives resources of a web server it is associated with.
Snagit	Data capture and Deposit	Snagit is screen capture software to create interesting training documents, collaborative design work, IT bug reports, and more.
Spadix software	Web Capture	Spadix Software can download websites from a starting URL, search engine results or web dirs, and is able to follow external links.
Storytracker	Web Capture	Tools for tracking stories on news homepages
Sumfolder1	Appraisal De-Duplication Fixity	sumfolder1 is a utility for use within the archival and digital preservation community to generate checksums for file system directories, and to generate an overall "collection" checksum for a given set of files. The utility may be used in support of de-duplication at a directory/folder level.
TOMES (Transforming Online Mail with Embedded Semantics)	File Format Migration Content Profiling Metadata Processing Data capture and Deposit	A package of open source tools for handling the preservation of government email records
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