Difference between revisions of "Siegfried"

	A PRONOM based, command line, file format identification tool using Aho Corasick matching and no buffer limits.
Homepage:	http://www.itforarchivists.com/siegfried
License:	Apache License 2.0
Function:	File Format Identification

Latest revision as of 11:23, 21 April 2021

Description[edit]

Siegried is a file format identification tool that, like DROID and Fido, is based on PRONOM. However, it uses a different pattern matching algorithm that offers different strengths and weaknesses to those other PRONOM based tools. A detailed description of the tool and why it was created can be found in this blog post. Besides, there is a more detailed description in terms of functionality on the Github Page of Siegfried.

Siegfried was first publicly released the 28th february 2014 in version 0.1.

User Experiences[edit]

ZBW:
- The command line tool is very easy to handle.
  The default output is yaml. This can be changed to csv or json.
  - Usual command: sf file.ext (will output in yaml)
  - Change output to csv: sf -csv file.ext
  - Change output to json: sf -json file.ext
- It is also possible to save the output in an external file:
  - sf file.ext >output.yml
  - sf -csv file.ext >output.csv
  - sf -json file.ext >output.json

Development Activity[edit]

All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/richardlehane/siegfried/commits

Release Feed[edit]

Below the last 3 release feeds:

2020-10-11 08:42:15: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/v1.9.1 Version 1.9.1]; by richardlehane
2020-09-22 21:04:08: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/v1.9.0 Version 1.9.0]; by richardlehane
2020-11-16 01:56:59: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/v1.9-demo-1 Wikidata playable demo 1.0]; by ross-spencer

Activity Feed[edit]

Below the last 5 commits:

2021-11-27 14:30:14: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/725cae1b9f6ae3f36a22c76666d509be58871392 update debbuildder email]; by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane
2021-07-08 19:45:22: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/63ee4b13fa4d0763b7fbd78cf8b1f4f642f67d8e Revert "Enable return of revision history via Wikibase"]; by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane
2021-06-14 08:17:21: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5c1c82f22627c35fe4abbcf40e66414334c799a0 Merge pull request #157 from richardlehane/dev/provenance-proof-of-co…]; by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane
2021-05-15 22:22:48: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/6cd46fe8d61f7a306b09ad78dd1a43097fad0389 Enable return of revision history via Wikibase]; by ross-spencer https://github.com/ross-spencer
2020-10-11 08:36:49: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a9ca6586c7b8bbc7290116828ed42fab3eab1f2d update README]; by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane

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