FIDO (Format Identification for Digital Objects)

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{*}F{*}ormat {*}I{*}dentification for *D{*}igital *O{*}bjects
Homepage:http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/software/fido
License:Apache 2.0 Open Source License


Description

{excerpt}FIDO ({*}F{*}ormat {*}I{*}dentification for D{*}igitalO{*}bjects) is a simple format identification CLI tool for digital objects that uses PRONOM signatures converted to regular expressions.{excerpt} Functionally FIDO can be compared with [DROID], sans the GUI.

FIDO is free, Apache 2.0 licensed, easy to install, and runs on any platform with Python installed. Most importantly, FIDO is very fast.

FIDO utilizes all available PRONOM signatures to identify digital objects. When an object can not be identified it will try to identify the object based on extension.

FIDO outputs results in CSV format by default. Available output fields can be formatted on runtime per the requirements of the user.

FIDO supports custom signatures which are not (yet) available through the PRONOM registry.

FIDO is able to identify container based (compound) formats such as Office documents and includes functionality to update PRONOM signatures.

History
FIDO was originally developed in 2010 by Adam Farquhar of British Library. The tool has been adopted by the Open Planets Foundation in 2011 and is currently maintained by Maurice de Rooij of the National Archives of the Netherlands (NANETH). In October 2011 NANETH has succesfully implemented FIDO as a webservice in the Dutch e-Depot.

Future
See [TR:FIDO roadmap]

Contributing
Feedback about FIDO is very welcome. Please consult [KB:Getting Started with the OPF] for more information.

User Experiences

Development Activity

Release and Activity Feed

2022-12-22 10:26:15
[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/67d878668642cf6eda8f4176d6ff9949abb56af0 Merge pull request #211 from openpreserve/rel/1.6]
by carlwilson https://github.com/carlwilson
2022-12-22 10:22:56
[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7cb03470318677ebc39e6728d05b7ab6b26728ad REL: Fido v1.6.1]
by carlwilson https://github.com/carlwilson
2022-12-16 16:42:49
[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/72c97277289373367bd382da6025e558b3ebafcb Merge pull request #210 from openpreserve/rel/1.6]
by carlwilson https://github.com/carlwilson
2022-12-16 16:24:12
[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d26d2b06fa820544b82b6bf8c7159ddaa69e1c28 FIX: Coverage report path.]
by carlwilson https://github.com/carlwilson
2022-12-16 16:22:10
[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a7a5557e39d01bdc3fc324007630db072d7f1e5a FIX: Coverage report path.]
by carlwilson https://github.com/carlwilson
2022-12-16 16:14:51
[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/24c92d53ef5eabfb1e819679fbc26de96015a044 FIX: Coverage report path.]
by carlwilson https://github.com/carlwilson
2022-12-16 16:07:29
[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/db60b4a6d21fed235528e4e651e1cb2b9e245ecf FIX: Coverage report path.]
by carlwilson https://github.com/carlwilson

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