Access, Use and Reuse

Lifecycle stage definition: Functions that support the DCC Lifecycle Stage defined as "Ensure that data is accessible to both designated users and reusers, on a day-to-day basis. This may be in the form of publicly available published information. Robust access controls and authentication procedures may be applicable."

Lifecycle order: 6

Functions within this lifecycle stage

Funtion	Definition
Access	Tools that facilitate access to digital data by users.
Annotation	Tools that facilitate annotation of digital data by users.
Discovery	Tools that facilitate the discovery of digital data by users.
Redaction	Tools that support the removal of selected information from digital files. Typically used for removal of sensitive information like telephone or credit card numbers from personal archives before providing access to users.

Tools for this lifecycle stage

Tool	Function	Purpose
3DHOP (3D Heritage Online Presenter)	Access	3DHOP is an open-source JavaScript framework for the visualization of 3D models in a standard web page.
ADIGRES	Storage File Management Access	ADIGRES is a powerful cross-platform Document Management System written in Java.
Annotation Curation Tool (ACT)	Annotation	w3act is an annotation and curation tool for web archives
ArchivesSpace	Access Metadata Processing	ArchivesSpace is the next-generation web-based archives information management system, designed by archivists and supported by diverse archival repositories.
Archon	Access Metadata Processing	Archon automatically publishes archival descriptive information and digital archival objects in a user-friendly website.
Audacity	Redaction Personal Archiving File Management	The open source audio editor
AudiAnnotate	Access Annotation Preservation System Workflow Academic Social Networking Personal Archiving Service Version Control Metadata Processing Rendering Discovery Persistent Identification Managing Active Research Data	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.
Clipper	Annotation	Clipper is a free open-source web application enabling researchers to create and share virtual-clips without altering the original media files
CollectiveAccess	Access Preservation System	CollectiveAccess is web-based software to catalogue, manage, and publish museum and archival collections.
CyberChef	Encryption Detection File Management Decryption Metadata Extraction Personal Archiving Binary & Hexidecimal Editing Discovery	A forensic tool with workflow capabilities to analyse files and containers
DArcMail	Data capture and Deposit Access Appraisal	Processing and access to email accounts
DFG Viewer	Access	Browser-based viewer for digital objects
DIMAG	Metadata Extraction Preservation System Access File Format Migration Storage Workflow	A software suite supporting archives with preservation of digital information for eternity
DSpace	Preservation System Access	DSpace is an institutional repository system which enables easy deposit, preservation, and access for all types of digital content.
DbDIPview	Access Quality Assurance Redaction	Framework for packaging the database Representation Information and pre-configured user-friendly access. Different combinations of Content Data Objects are supported by an automated deployment mechanism. Enables access to the archived databases in the archive reading room for non-technical users.
DiPS (Digital Preservation Solution)	Access Active Data Storage File Format Identification File Format Migration File Management Metadata Extraction Preservation System Secure Deletion Service Storage Transfer Validation Workflow	DiPS (OAIS compliant Digital Preservation Solution)
Djatoka	Access	djatoka is open source Java software that builds upon a rich set of APIs and libraries to provide a service framework for the dynamic dissemination of JPEG 2000 image files.
EPADD	Metadata Processing Metadata Extraction Content Profiling Access Appraisal	ePADD is a software package developed by Stanford University's Special Collections & University Archives that supports archival processes around the appraisal, ingest, processing, discovery, and delivery of email archives.
EPrints	Preservation System Access	EPrints is an open access digital repository software, which is intended to create a highly configurable web-based repository.
EnCase eDiscovery	Discovery	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	Access Validation Binary & Hexidecimal Editing Discovery Repair Quality Assurance Policy File Format Identification File Recovery Forensic Metadata Extraction	Tool, language and decoders for working with binary data.
Free Video Cutter Joiner	Redaction Personal Archiving File Management	It cuts and joins video streams without altering the codecs.
Greenstone	Access Metadata Processing	A suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections
IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)	Access Rendering	A set of APIs, tools and protocols for manipulating and providing interoperable access to digital images
IIPImage	Access	IIPImage is an advanced high-performance imaging server and client for web-based streamed remote visualization of ultra resolution scientific imagery.
IN-SPIRE Visual Document Analysis	Access	IN-SPIRE Visual Document Analysis is powerful information visualization software developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
InBoxer	Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing Access	InBoxer is a next generation email archiving, IM archiving, e-discovery, and policy management system.
JabRef	Metadata Processing Annotation	Reference and bibliographic data manager
LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)	Storage Preservation System Access	LOCKSS software allows libraries to create preserved digital collections out of materials that would otherwise be accessible only through a licensed academic subscription.
Leaflet	Access	Open-source JavaScript library for building interactive maps (OpenStreetMap)
Levels of Born-Digital Access	Access Organisational Audit Planning	A tiered set of recommendations that help guide organizations in the planning and implementation of born-digital access provisions.
Library of Congress Newspaper Viewer	Access	The Library of Congress Newspaper Viewer is a web application used to ingest and view digitized newspaper pages meeting the National Digital Newspaper Program specification.
METSFlask	Access	A web application for human-friendly exploration of Archivematica METS files
MPP Viewer	Access File Format Migration	MPP Viewer is a viewer for Microsoft Project files
MRU-Blaster	Redaction Forensic	MRU-Blaster is a program made to do one large task - detect and clean MRU (most recently used) lists on your computer.
MailStore Home	Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing File Management Discovery	Unifies your private emails into one searchable, platform-independent repository
Micr'Olonys	Storage Access Passive Data Storage Backup Transfer File Recovery	Micr’Olonys is the software solution for long-term passive digital archiving on film and paper.
Microsoft Office 2003 Add-in: Word Redaction v1.2	Redaction Forensic	Use the Word 2003 Redaction Add-in to hide text within Microsoft Office Word 2003 documents.
Microsoft Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data	Redaction Forensic	With this add-in you can permanently remove hidden data and collaboration data, such as change tracking and comments, from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint files.
Mink	Access Discovery Personal Archiving	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	Discovery	Download legacy file formats from the UK Web Archive and Warclight services
Oldweb.today	Access	An open source tool for accessing and exploring web archives through emulated legacy browsers.
Omeka	Access	Omeka is a free open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.
PDFsam	Rendering Redaction	PDFsam splits and merges PDF files
Potree	Rendering Access Discovery	A free open-source WebGL based point cloud renderer for large point clouds.
Project Blacklight	Discovery	Blacklight is a free and open source ruby-on-rails based discovery interface (a.
Proofpoint Enterprise Archive	Discovery Service Storage	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.
QGIS	File Format Migration Rendering Multi Format Rendering Access	QGIS is a Free and Open Source GIS application that supports a wide range of raster and vector spatial data types.
RATOM	Appraisal Discovery Metadata Extraction	Review, Appraisal, and Triage of Mail (RATOM) is software to assist archives and other collecting organizations with email analysis, selection, and appraisal tasks
RapidRedact	Redaction Forensic	The RapidRedact product range provides fast, easy to use redaction tools for irreversibly blanking out (redacting) selected information, author's changes and hidden data from all electronic document types.
Recollection	Access	Recollections is a free open source platform for generating and customizing views (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow scholars, librarians, and curators to explore digital collection.
Redact-It	Redaction Forensic	Provides Windows desktop and server redaction of PDF, Word, scanned TIFF images. Find, black out and remove content within documents, images or drawings.
Redax	Redaction Forensic	Redax completely redacts (removes) text and graphics from the PDF page.
Rescarta	Preservation System Access Personal Archiving	The ResCarta Tools software empowers users to create non-proprietary digital objects with LOC standard METS, MODS, MIX and AudioMD metadata from existing TIFF, JPEG, PDF and WAV data through user-friendly interfaces.
Rosetta	Preservation System Access Metadata Processing File Format Migration	Ex Libris Rosetta enables institutions to preserve and provide access to the collections in their care.
SIARDexcerpt	Quality Assurance Access	SIARDexcerpt is a Java-based application that searches and extracts individual records of SIARD files.
SPARQLing Unicorn QGIS Plugin	Data capture and Deposit Discovery Web Capture File Format Migration	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.
Sheeko	Annotation Metadata Extraction	Machine learning implementation package to generate descriptive metadata for digitized historical images.
Shotwell	Metadata Processing Personal Archiving Annotation	An open source photo manager capable of describing image collections for archival ingest.
Simile Exhibit	Access	Exhibit lets you easily create web pages with advanced text search and filtering functionalities, with interactive maps, timelines, and other visualizations.
Smithsonian Voyager	Discovery Access	Open source 3D explorer and authoring tool suite with a 3D viewer web component to be used for dissemination of 3D data.
SobekCM	Access Discovery Metadata Processing Preservation System Quality Assurance	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.
TweetSets	Access	TweetSets provides a web interface that allows users to (1) select from existing datasets; (2) limit the dataset by querying on keywords, hashtags, and other parameters; (3) generate and download dataset derivatives such as the list of tweet ids and mention nodes/edges.
Veridian	Discovery	Online search, discovery, and display of digitized newspaper collections
Vitrivr	Discovery	System for indexing and retrieving multimedia data based on its content.
Voyeur	Access Metadata Processing	Voyeur is a web-based text analysis environment that can use texts in a variety of formats, from different locations to perform lexical analysis, export data to other tools, and embed live tools into remote websites.
WERA (Web ARchive Access)	Access Discovery	WERA (Web ARchive Access) is a freely available solution for searching and navigating archived web document collections.
Warc Analyzer	Discovery	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	Access Discovery Web Capture	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	Metadata Extraction File Format Identification Content Profiling Discovery	Indexing and discovery tools for web archives.
Web Recorder Player	Rendering Access	A tool that replays WARC files on your local computer.
WordHoard	Metadata Extraction Access	WordHoard is an application for the close reading and scholarly analysis of deeply tagged texts.
XPAT	Discovery	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.