DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)

DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) is a software tool developed to perform automated batch identification of file formats.
Homepage:	http://digital-preservation.github.io/droid/
License:	BSD License
Platforms:	Java 6 Standard Edition
Appears in COW:	Abrdn Digital Preservation Workflow, Creating a SIP from content downloaded from OneDrive (or other Cloud based source), Digital archiving workflow (high-level), Ingest and AIP creation, LAC Pre-Ingest Workflow, Workflow for ingesting digitized books into a digital archive

Description

DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) is a software tool developed to perform automated batch identification of file formats. DROID is designed to meet the fundamental requirement of any digital repository to be able to identify the precise format of all stored digital objects, and to link that identification to a central registry of technical information about that format and its dependencies.

DROID uses the PRONOM signature files to perform format identification. Like PRONOM, it was developed by the National Archives of the UK. Written in Java, XML.

User Experiences

• Digital Asset Assessment Tool - Assessment of file format testing tools.
• Comparing how Apache Tika and DROID perform HTML identification: How much of the UK's HTML is valid?
• An Analysis Engine for the DROID CSV Export