Discovery

Function definition: Tools that facilitate the discovery of digital data by users.

Lifecycle stage: Access, Use and Reuse

Tools for this function

Tool	Purpose
AudiAnnotate	To make audio and its interpretations more discoverable and usable by extending the use of the newest IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard for audio with the development of the AudiAnnotate web application, documented workflows and workshops that will facilitate the use of existing best-of-breed, open source tools for audio annotation (Sonic Visualiser), for public code and document repositories (GitHub), and audio presentation (Universal Viewer) to produce, publish, and sustain shareable W3C Web Annotations for individual and collaborative audio projects.
CyberChef	A forensic tool with workflow capabilities to analyse files and containers
EnCase eDiscovery	EnCase eDiscovery is the market leading e-discovery software that enables more efficient business process and significantly reduces legal risk and cost with a judicially accepted solution that provides everything from legal hold to first pass review and is scalable, defensible, and repeatable.
Fq	Tool, language and decoders for working with binary data.
MailStore Home	Unifies your private emails into one searchable, platform-independent repository
Mink	Chrome extension that uses Memento to indicate that a page a user is viewing on the live web has an archived copy and to give the user access to the copy
Moonshine	Download legacy file formats from the UK Web Archive and Warclight services
Potree	A free open-source WebGL based point cloud renderer for large point clouds.
Project Blacklight	Blacklight is a free and open source ruby-on-rails based discovery interface (a.
Proofpoint Enterprise Archive	Proofpoint Enterprise Archive is a SaaS email archiving solution that addresses three key challenges eDiscovery, regulatory compliance and email storage management without the headaches of managing archiving in-house.
RATOM	Review, Appraisal, and Triage of Mail (RATOM) is software to assist archives and other collecting organizations with email analysis, selection, and appraisal tasks
SPARQLing Unicorn QGIS Plugin	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.
Smithsonian Voyager	Open source 3D explorer and authoring tool suite with a 3D viewer web component to be used for dissemination of 3D data.
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.
Veridian	Online search, discovery, and display of digitized newspaper collections
Vitrivr	System for indexing and retrieving multimedia data based on its content.
WERA (Web ARchive Access)	WERA (Web ARchive Access) is a freely available solution for searching and navigating archived web document collections.
Warc Analyzer	A proof-of-concept client side webapp for analyzing WARC data using Webrecorder's warcio.js. No WARC data is uploaded anywhere it runs on your machine. The idea is that it would be useful for archivists who have been given a pile of WARC data and they would like to quickly know what it contains.
Wayback Machine	The Wayback Machine is a powerful search and discovery tool for use with collections of Web site "snapshots" collected through Web harvesting, usually with Heritrix (ARC or WARC files).
Web Archive Discovery	Indexing and discovery tools for web archives.
XPAT	The XPAT engine is an SGML/XML-aware search engine that the University of Michigan has deployed with an extremely diverse set of digital library resources.