Content Profiling

Function definition: Tools that build a profile of the characteristics of digital content, typically by combining or analysing a number of sources of information such as extracted metadata and file format identifications.

Lifecycle stage: Preservation Planning

Tools for this function

Tool	Purpose
Autopsy Digital Forensics	Open source, free digital forensics tool
Brunnhilde	Siegfried-based characterization of directories and disk images
C3PO	C3PO is a content profiling tool for visualization and preservation analysis
Crazy-fast-image-scan	A script to scan media very quickly to find out what kind of content it contains
Demystify	Format Identification Analysis and Reporting
EPADD	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.
TOMES (Transforming Online Mail with Embedded Semantics)	A package of open source tools for handling the preservation of government email records
Web Archive Discovery	Indexing and discovery tools for web archives.
Yara	YARA is a tool that allows the identification of files that match user-defined textual or binary patterns