Tools Grid

Find digital preservation tools to experiment with using the Tools Grid below! Or you can view tools by stage, function, content type or file format. Watch this video to learn more.

DCC Lifecycle Stages
	Create or Receive (Acquire)	Ingest	Preservation Planning	Preservation Action	Access, Use and Reuse	Store	Dispose	Cross-Lifecycle Functions
3D	2	4		7	3	3		4
Audio	7	19	3	21	5	5	2	19
Binary Data	4	5	2	7	3	4	1	9
Container	4	4	1	9	2	4	1	2
Database	2	5		20	2	4	1	1
Disk Image	16	7		6	1	4		12
Document	6	33	1	27	9	3	2	26
EBook		4		3				3
Email	7	7	2	7	7	4		8
Geospatial	2	2		4	3	1		1
Image	11	36	1	36	8	3	1	24
Metadata	6	25	2	10	8	4	1	7
Project Management Data	1	1		2	1			1
Research Data	11	6	9	1	2	17		6
Software	2	3		6		2		4
Spreadsheet	1	6		6				3
Video	6	18	3	23	4	5	2	16
Web	36	9	3	12	6	6		10
Not content-type specific	30	50	109	14	102	92	31	85

Built from the 624 tools recorded in COPTR.