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Latest revision as of 14:04, 17 August 2021
Description[edit]
DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) is a software tool developed to perform automated batch identification of file formats. DROID is designed to meet the fundamental requirement of any digital repository to be able to identify the precise format of all stored digital objects, and to link that identification to a central registry of technical information about that format and its dependencies.
DROID uses the PRONOM signature files to perform format identification. Like PRONOM, it was developed by the National Archives of the UK. Written in Java, XML.
PRONOM[edit]
The format information held in PRONOM is what powers DROID (Digital Record Object Identification). Both are maintained by the UK's National Archives.
DROID downloads the latest signature files from PRONOM, and those are used to drive the identification process. See the PRONOM release notes.
A number of other tools and registries have been based around the PRONOM data. These include:
Although the information and website are made freely available under the Open Government License, the underlying software engine that powers PRONOM is proprietary.
The PRONOM Web API[edit]
The website is oriented towards manual browsing, but note that each PRONOM registry entry as a permalink, like this:
http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/fmt/579
and furthermore, by appending '.xml' to the URL for any entry, the data can be recovered as XML:
http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/fmt/579.xml
User Experiences[edit]
- Tool demo with videos in the DPC Handbook
- Digital Asset Assessment Tool - Assessment of file format testing tools.
- Comparing how Apache Tika and DROID perform HTML identification: How much of the UK's HTML is valid?
- An Analysis Engine for the DROID CSV Export
- KOST-CECO: Used in KOST-Val for the file format identification. For performance and granularity reasons an own SignatureFile is used instead of the official PRONOM registry.
- FITS (File Information Tool Set): Used in FITS
Development Activity[edit]
All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/digital-preservation/droid/commits
Release Feed[edit]
Below the last 3 release feeds:
- 2023-03-18 10:11:10
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4737996/6.6.1 6.6.1 Release]
- by sparkhi
- 2023-03-13 15:55:16
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4737996/droid-6.6.1-rc2 droid-6.6.1-rc2]
- by sparkhi
- 2023-03-09 14:49:36
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/4737996/6.6.1-rc 6.6.1-rc]
- by sparkhi
Activity Feed[edit]
Below the last 5 commits:
- 2023-03-24 10:00:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/447f59c5748212024678ec867326acf25a906420 removed uploading to github as it does it for all combinations of OS …]
- by sparkhi https://github.com/sparkhi
- 2023-03-21 11:36:33
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/fa18ce7d3ce768ff5f97139fd926d63b57392641 build(deps): bump wiremock-jre8 from 2.33.2 to 2.35.0 (#830)]
- by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
- 2023-03-21 09:44:15
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/95b84ec518d6591d638046c1033274722ad52655 build(deps): bump dependency-check-maven from 7.1.1 to 8.1.2 (#894)]
- by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
- 2023-03-20 16:27:59
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/40db7191facb64034a2d978d31dfc1034252db35 build(deps): bump log4j2.version from 2.19.0 to 2.20.0 (#911)]
- by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
- 2023-03-20 11:53:30
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/cee67eac21fd5899a9e9f4894370a1286847bd49 build(deps): bump maven-site-plugin from 3.12.0 to 3.12.1 (#829)]
- by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
About Formats[edit]
DROID do only read the format itself, not the spesification as such