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

Description

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

• 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

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

Release Feed

Below the last 3 release feeds:

2024-07-15 02:36:25

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/v1.11.2-rc0 Version 1.11.2-rc0]

by richardlehane

2024-06-28 00:38:41

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/v1.11.1 Version 1.11.1]

by github-actions[bot]

2024-06-22 05:59:59

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/bench-2024-06-22 bench-2024-06-22]

by richardlehane

Activity Feed

Below the last 5 commits:

2024-07-07 02:57:31

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5e86c0355bcf30bc74e75bc3c4d3ee8a3be35ab8 update deps]

by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane

2024-07-07 02:56:00

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a6021af5d5d0ed92da765d2b4fc9032fc52630d1 typos in changelog and readme]

by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane

2024-07-07 02:54:34

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/4bf8d50c117bc6f838e6db950797afd43720925d Merge branch 'main' into develop]

by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane

2024-07-07 02:52:55

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/4c770753df1d075f4ded1bd22aa12695f14f9432 git commit -a -m "allow automated releases to trigger workflows"]

by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane

2024-07-06 02:19:41

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/3661848393c10d4e85f880e9e097e1e8ed9a7f57 Update README.md - fix wasm/README.md path in changelog (#252)]

by kieranjol https://github.com/kieranjol