Tools Grid

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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	49	109	14	101	93	31	84

Built from the 622 tools recorded in COPTR.