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3-Heights(TM) PDF Validator from PDF-Tools AG. +
3DHOP is an open-source JavaScript framework for the visualization of 3D models in a standard web page. +
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7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio, and encryption and fixity check capabilities +
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The Auditing Control Environment is a mature set of software designed to help libraries and archives prove their holdings are intact and trustworthy. +
Tools for the creation of disk images, used in conjunction with the AFF open and extensible file format to store disk images and associated metadata. +
The Advanced Forensics Format (AFF) and AFF Library (AFFLIB) are a joint development project of Simson L. +
ANTS runs on a Windows desktop and is designed to package digital records with contextual metadata and transfer them to an institutional archives. +
Assessing Institutional Digital Assets: Self-assessment tool for describing institutional readiness and capabilities for digital asset management and digital preservation +
Generating and resolving ARK identifiers for resources in [[Omeka]] +
Web-based tool that supports accessioning, arrangement and description, and access to archival finding aids +
Fixity monitoring for digital collections +
Media dump software and disc image manager +
This page gives information on AccessData Decryption Tools. +
A collection of scripts to automatically convert MS Access files to the SIARD format. +
A commercial image editor with a metadata module (Organizer). +
Advanced Renamer is a program for renaming multiple files and folders at once. By configuring renaming methods the names can be manipulated in various ways. +
Amazon Cloud is an internet-based storage location designed to hold files indefinitely. +
w3act is an annotation and curation tool for web archives +
JAVA PDF library for creation, manipulation, validation and content extraction of PDF documents +
The Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2). +
Java based tool for identifying file formats using signatures and extracting metadata and text content from documents. +
Overview of folder trees with fine diagrams +
Archive-It is the leading web archiving service for collecting and accessing cultural heritage on the web. It is a service provided by the Internet Archive. +
BagIt API for Perl +
ArchiveBox is an open source tool that lets organizations & individuals archive both public & private web content while retaining control over their data. +
ArchiveFacebook is a Firefox extension which allows individuals to save and manage Facebook web content. +
An online tool which evaluates if a website will be archived correctly by web archives, such as the Internet Archive +
Archivematica is a digital preservation system that automates the process of preparing digital objects for ingest into a repository and an access system +
ArchivesSpace is the next-generation web-based archives information management system, designed by archivists and supported by diverse archival repositories. +
An open source archival data management system to provide broad, integrated support for the management of archives +
Archon automatically publishes archival descriptive information and digital archival objects in a user-friendly website. +
ARK identifiers generator in python +
A tool for capturing contextual data produced during the creative process of artists and designers while working on a computer. +
AsTiffTagViewer is a TIFF Tag Viewer application. +
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. +
This tool converts audio and video files to WAV format. +
Open source, free digital forensics tool +
Graphical interface to the command line digital investigation tools in The Sleuth Kit +
AVCC is an open source application that enables collaborative, efficient item-level cataloging of audiovisual collections. +
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BAT is a Perl package for processing Internet Archive ARC, DAT and CDX file format. +
BCWipe data wiping software enables you to permanently delete selected files so that they can never be recovered or undeleted. +
BagIt Library is a Java software library that supports the creation, manipulation and validation of bags. +
BWF MetaEdit permits embedding, validating, and exporting of metadata in Broadcast WAVE Format (BWF) files. +
BagIt transfer Utilities are a collection of tools developed for the purpose of validation and transfer of bags. +
The BitCurator Environment is an Ubuntu Linux distribution geared to the needs of archivists and librarians. It includes a suite of open source digital forensics and data analysis tools to help collecting institutions process born-digital materials. +
Command Line Interface (CLI) to export METS/ALTO documents to other formats. +
From GitHub (https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler):
Brozzler is a distributed web crawler that uses a real browser (Chrome or Chromium) to fetch pages and embedded URLs and to extract links.
Brozzler is designed to work in conjunction with warcprox for web archiving. +
Siegfried-based characterization of directories and disk images +
Bulk Rename Utility is a free file renaming software for Windows. Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria. +
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CASTOR, which stands for the CERN Advanced STORage manager, is a hierarchical storage management (HSM) system developed at CERN used to store physics production files and user files. +
Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents. +
CDS Convert is a suite of tools that allow conversion of documents, presentations and images between different software formats. +
CINCH (Capture INgest and CHecksum Tool) facilitates batch downloading and ingest of Internet-accessible documents and/or images to a central repository. +
The Cost Model for Digital Preservation (CDMP) is a tool that calculates the present and future costs of three sets of activities associated with preservation of digital collections. +
cRunch provides an infrastructure for exploratory data analysis with the statistical programming language and environment R +
Validation of CSV files against user-defined schema +
A Microsoft Access form to export all database tables to interoperable CSV files. +
CoreTrustSeal offers to any interested data repository, certification based on the DSA–WDS Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements catalogue and procedures +
Common Workflow Language (CWL) is an open standard for describing how to run command line tools and connect them to create workflows. +
An e-book management tool, including viewer, migration, and file conversion features among others. +
an online backup service that automatically backs up documents, e-mails, music, photos, and settings. Info gathered early March 2013. +
Supports creation of new preservation policies as well as planning and watch activities. +
Catalyst is a solution for the creation of better inventories and the management of digitization workflows. +
catdoc is a program that reads one or more Microsoft Word files and outputs text to standard output. +
a tool to validate TIFF files against given configuration profile +
Fast hashing tool using a GUI interface +
"Chronopolis digital preservation network provides services for the long-term preservation and curation of America's digital holdings" +
cksum computes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) checksum for each given file, or standard input if none are given +
Clipper is a free open-source web application enabling researchers to create and share virtual-clips without altering the original media files +
Cloc (Count Lines of Code) serves not only to count the lines of Code,but also guesses the programming language, thus can be used to identify files. It is a command line tool which is easy to use. +
CloneCD is the perfect tool to make backup copies of your music and data CDs, regardless of copy protection. +
CloudCompare is a tool for editing and processing 3D point clouds and triangular meshes. +
CollectiveAccess is web-based software to catalogue, manage, and publish museum and archival collections. +
The UVa Library's Collectus digital object collector tool allows users to to collect image or text objects from a repository. +
ContextMiner is a framework to collect, analyze, and present the contextual information along with the data. +
A GUI for ImageMagick supporting mass operations +
A calculator to analyze the Cost of Inaction of not digitizing/preserving audiovisual assets +
cp copies files (or, optionally, directories). Part of GNU coreutils. +
A script to scan media very quickly to find out what kind of content it contains +
Cryptcat is a lightweight version of netcat with integrated transport encryption capabilities. +
With a simple click of the mouse, you can create visually compelling clips and quotes of web content that are easily embedded in blog posts, email, forums, and websites. +
Curator's Workbench is a tool that automates and streamlines the process of preparing collections of digital materials for submission to a repository +
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Software Kit creates a network of repositories that share the infrastructure services necessary to process and provide access to digital content. +
A digital preservation software application designed as a dark archive to service consortial and institutional preservation repositories a multi-user environment type. DAITSS is considered to be a first-party system. +
Migration to Intermediate XML for Electronic Data. +
Provides both a GUI and a command-line interface for packaging files and uploading them to remote repositories. +
DBPTK Developer - library and command-line tool for exection of database preservation actions +
"The goal of the DCAPE project is to build a distributed production preservation environment
that meets the needs of archival repositories for trusted archival preservation services." (Note: This is a work in progress, see notes for more information) +
Browser-based viewer for digital objects +
Accompanies ingest process from donor to archive, logs process steps. +
DLCM is an archiving solution based on the OAIS model developed in Java by Swiss universities. It is also the technological stack of the OLOS service. +
Provides a single dashboard view of how various departments contribute to RDM activities and how an institution is performing in terms of its compliance with policies +
dBpoweramp Music Converter (dMC) is an audio conversion tool. +
DMPTool is an online service to enable researchers to create data management plans now required by many funding agencies, and to receive tailored institutional guidance to help them in the process. +
A comprehensive toolkit to help practitioners and middle managers build business cases to fund digital preservation activities. +
A maturity modelling tool that has been designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organization's digital preservation capability. +
Maturity / gap analysis model for digital preservation +
A TIFF validity checker +
DRAMBORA offers a quantifiable insight into the severity of risks faced by repositories right now, and an effective means for reporting these. +
DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) is a software tool developed to perform automated batch identification of file formats. +
The DPSP is a collection of four software applications which support the goal of digital preservation. +
DSpace is an institutional repository system which enables easy deposit, preservation, and access for all types of digital content. +
The DUMPBIN utility, which is provided with the 32-bit version of Microsoft Visual C++, combines the abilities of the LINK, LIB, and EXEHDR utilities. +
DV Analyzer is a technical quality control and reporting tool that examines DV streams in order to report errors in the tape-to-file transfer process. +
DVRescue is archivist-made software that supports data migration from DV tapes into digital files suitable for long-term preservation. +
Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. +
The Data Asset Framework (formerly the Data Audit Framework) provides organisations with the means to identify, locate, describe and assess how they are managing their research data assets. +
A storage broker and front end for archiving research data that is no longer active but that does not have a need for open publication +
DataCite works with data centres to assign persistent identifiers to datasets using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) infrastructure. +
DataFlow is a two-stage data management infrastructure that is designed to allow researchers to work with, annotate, publish, and permanently store research data. +
suite of tools "designed to assist with Computer Forensics, Information Auditing, Information Security and Data Recovery" +
DataStage is a flexible data storage system that provides controlled access, secure backup, and the ability to transfer selected files to a more permanent archiving facility. +
The Dataverse is an open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore and analyze research data. +
Enables conversion between database formats or dumping from live database systems for the purposes of preservation. +
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. +
dc3dd is a patched version of GNU dd with a number of features useful for computer forensics. +
This page gives information on using the dd Unix command. +
Intended for preserving web sites from the back-end, this is a database-to-XML curation tool. +
The Dependency Discovery Tool searches through binary office files (.doc, .xls and .ppt) and tries to find any documents or files that are linked to the document. +
The detox utility renames files to make them easier to work with under Unix and Unix-like operating systems. +
A collaborative document which non-developers can adapt to record QA methods using built-in browser developer tools. +
DiPS (OAIS compliant '''Di'''gital '''P'''reservation '''S'''olution) +
Digital Intelligence Forensic Software +
A toolset for developing standards compliant digital preservation management documentation on an array of topics +
A Policy Framework template to help organizations develop a high-level policy document that explicitly states the scope, purpose, objectives, operating principles, and context of the organization's digital curation and preservation program. +
Digital Preservation Recorder (DPR) is free and open source software developed by the National Archives of Australia to aid in the long term preservation of digital records. +
Dioscuri is a computer hardware emulator, specifically designed to be used as part of a digital preservation strategy. +
A universal metadata extractor +
Show disk usage, directory printer, find duplicate files, rename files, show file CRC and maintain your files - all in 1 tool +
Website to browse and search vintage computer files from archive.org +
In Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10. +
Disk2FDI is a professional disk imaging software designed to create binary images of floppy disks to the Formatted Disk Image (FDI) file format, as well as sector-based standard formats. +
Identify floppy disk formats from kryoflux stream files +
DiskView shows you a graphical map of your disk, allowing you to determine where a file is located or, by clicking on a cluster, seeing which file occupies it. +
Tool for detecting the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes. +
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. +
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) document conversion tools make the exchange and use of biomedical library electronic information easier for librarians, library users, and the general public +
docuteam cosmos is a comprehensive, modular software solution for the operation of digital long-term archives based on the OAIS standard ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archival_Information_System Open Archival Information System, ISO 14721:2012]). +
Creates and edits SIPs +
Open source file manager with two panels side by side +
DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. +
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. This means that any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, phones and even the Dropbox website. Dropbox also makes it super easy to share with others, whether you're a student or professional, parent or grandparent. Even if you accidentally spill a latte on your laptop, have no fear! You can relax knowing that Dropbox always has you covered, and none of your stuff will ever be lost. +
Data Accessioner provides a graphical user interface to aid in migrating data from physical media to a dedicated file server, documenting the process and using MD5 checksums to identify any errors introduced in transfer. +
DuraCloud is a hosted service that provides a centralised interface for organizations interested in using cloud storage as a part of their digital archiving and preservation programs. +
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EMET is a stand-alone tool designed to extract metadata embedded in JPEG and TIFF files. +
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 is an open access digital repository software, which is intended to create a highly configurable web-based repository. +
EXE Explorer reads and displays executable file properties and structure. +
Extract EXIF data and normalise it to DC XML. +
Easy CD-DA Extractor is CD Ripper, Music Converter, Audio Converter, Metadata Editor, and CD/DVD burning software. +
Tool suite to manage digital content in multiple repository systems. +
Converts proprietary emails to standard portable formats +
Embedding Repositories Self-Assessment Tool is comprised of a series of questions designed to quantify the degree that a digital repository is ‘embedded’ within its institution – the extent to which both the organisation's research and its administrative culture recognise the repository’s value and take full advantage of its capacity. +
EnCase Forensic (OpenText) +
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. +
Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. +
Exact Audio Copy is an audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives on Windows only. +
Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. +
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bootable CD with Linux and forensic tools +
Device Side Data's FC5025 USB 5.25" floppy controller plugs into any computer's USB port and enables you to attach a 5.25" floppy drive. +
bootable CD with Linux and forensic tools +
FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. +
A PRONOM based, command line, file format identification tool written in Python +
FITS allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository. +
Forensic Toolkit (AccessData) +
Fedora provides the back-end foundation for digital repository systems responsible for managing and preserving all types of digital content. +
The File Analyzer is a general purpose desktop (and command line) tool designed to automate simple, file-based operations. The File Analyzer assembles a toolkit of tasks a user can perform. The tasks that have been written into the File Analyzer code base have been optimized for use by libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions. +
Perl API to analyze and handle droid (PRONOM) signatures +
FileAlyzer allows a basic analysis of files (showing file properties and file contents in hex dump form) and is able to interpret common file contents like resources structures (like text, graphics, HTML, media and PE). +
FileTrove indexes files and creates metadata from them. The single binary application walks a directory tree and identifies all regular files by type with Siegfried. +
Windows utility for verifying file contents +
Filedriller walks a directory tree and identifies all regular files, creates hash sums and checks for files in the NSRL. Still in Beta. +
Filzip offers full support (add and extract) support for ZIP (including Quake III's PK3), BH (BlakHole), CAB (Microsoft Cabinet), JAR (JavaARchive), LHA (LZH), TARand GZIP(TAR. +
Find It! Keep It! is a tool to save and organise web content. +
This is the home page for the open source implementation of the file(1) command that ships with every free operating system (OpenBSD, Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, etc. +
Fixi is a command-line utility that indexes, verifies, and updates checksum information for collections of files. +
fixes some issues in (potentially) baseline tiffs, as an example, invalid datetime tags, wrong tiff tag order +
Fixity Pro is a desktop application for Windows and Mac that provides simple automated monitoring and reporting on the data integrity of your files that are stored on your computer, removable storage devices, and mounted network storage locations. Use Fixity Pro to schedule routine scans that will tell you if your files have been changed and if any files have been added, removed, or moved/renamed since the last scan that was performed. +
Compares two directory trees and flags up duplicates +
Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. +
A collection of utilities and libraries intended for forensic or forensic-related investigative use in a modern Microsoft Windows environment. +
It cuts and joins video streams without altering the codecs. +
Split-screen file manager with desirable extras +
XVI32 is a freeware hex editor running under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. +
Set of utilities to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem, such as duplicate files, empty directories, and bad file names. +
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GFI MailArchiver is an email archiving software that is the single solution source for your email management problems on Exchange Server. +
A customisable GUI for Tesseract +
GNU Diffutils is a package of several programs related to finding differences between files. +
GNU libextractor is a library used to extract meta data from files of arbitrary type. +
GetDataBack will recover your data if the hard drive's partition table, boot record, FAT/MFT or root directory are lost or damaged, data was lost due to a virus attack, the drive was formatted, fdisk has been run, a power failure has caused a system crash, files were lost due to a software failure, files were accidentally deleted. +
GetDriveInfo2 is a Win32 program that examines the optical and removable media drives currently mounted on a computer, and returns information about those devices (in the case of optical devices it also returns information about the any media currently mounted in the device). +
Extracts technical and embedded descriptive metadata from common multimedia file formats. +
Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. +