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== User Experiences ==
 
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*'''[2014-06-03]''' [http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2014-06-03-analysis-engine-droid-csv-export Describing the creation and purpose of the tool.]
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**'''[2014-06-03]''' [http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2014-06-03-analysis-engine-droid-csv-export Describing the creation and purpose of the tool.]
*'''[2015-08-25]''' [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2015/08/25/hero-or-villain-a-tool-to-create-a-digital-preservation-rogues-gallery/ Using the output of the tool to create a digital preservation rogues gallery.]
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**'''[2015-08-25]''' [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2015/08/25/hero-or-villain-a-tool-to-create-a-digital-preservation-rogues-gallery/ Using the output of the tool to create a digital preservation rogues gallery.]
*'''[2016-05-23]''' [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2016/05/23/whats-in-a-namespace-the-marriage-of-droid-and-siegfried-analysis/ The integration of Siegfried output for consistent and repeatable reporting.]
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**'''[2016-05-23]''' [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2016/05/23/whats-in-a-namespace-the-marriage-of-droid-and-siegfried-analysis/ The integration of Siegfried output for consistent and repeatable reporting.]
*'''[2016-05-24]''' [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2016/05/24/while-were-on-the-subject-a-few-more-points-of-interest-about-the-siegfrieddroid-analysis-tool/ Creating a multi-lingual consistent, digital preservation dialect and exploring alternative methods of format identification using Siegfried's capabilities.]
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**'''[2016-05-24]''' [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2016/05/24/while-were-on-the-subject-a-few-more-points-of-interest-about-the-siegfrieddroid-analysis-tool/ Creating a multi-lingual consistent, digital preservation dialect and exploring alternative methods of format identification using Siegfried's capabilities.]
  
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Revision as of 06:49, 12 July 2016


Analysis and automatic generation of summary information from DROID output
Homepage:https://github.com/ross-spencer/droid-sqlite-analysis
License:Open source (see URL above)
Platforms:sqlite + Python + text/html


Description

Engine for analysis of DROID CSV export files, Siegfried YAML export files, and Siegfried 'DROID compatible' output. The tool has three purposes, break the exports into their components and store them within a table in a SQLite database; create additional columns to augment the output where useful; and query the SQLite database, outputting results in a readable form useful for analysis by researchers and archivists within digital preservation departments in memory institutions.

The tool provides archivist definitions for each of the sections output; these definitions are customisable. The tool also supports output of statistics about files that may require further triage or may not be appropriate for long-term preservation based on institutional rules, in the form of a blacklist. The tool also analyses file names and directory names for non-ascii characters, and also characteristics that may present problems cross-file-system based on known Microsoft rules: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx

The engine can be used to generate a list of file paths for files that may present digital preservation risks (Rogues) or files which on the surface i.e. via identification alone, look okay (Heroes) and these listings can be used in conjunction with rsync to isolate these sets from one-another to be more flexible to work with.

User Experiences

Development Activity

All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/ross-spencer/droid-sqlite-analysis/commits

Release Feed

Below the last 3 release feeds:

2024-04-14 13:53:10
[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/15066530/v2.0.0rc7 v2.0.0rc7]
by ross-spencer
2024-03-25 20:52:06
[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/15066530/v2.0.0rc6 v2.0.0rc6]
by ross-spencer
2024-03-24 19:15:52
[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/15066530/v2.0.0rc5 v2.0.0rc5]
by ross-spencer

Activity Feed

Below the last 5 commits: Failed to load RSS feed from https://github.com/ross-spencer/droid-sqlite-analysis/commits/master.atom: There was a problem during the HTTP request: 404 Not Found