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

Description

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

• 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

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

Release Feed

Below the last 3 release feeds:

2022-11-06 16:51:55

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/v1.9.6 Version v1.9.6]

by richardlehane

2022-09-12 22:14:38

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/v1.9.5 Version v1.9.5]

by richardlehane

2022-07-19 10:50:38

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/17277958/v1.9.4 Version v1.9.4]

by richardlehane

Activity Feed

Below the last 5 commits:

2022-11-07 10:05:12

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/2d9637f89702b2497f42fcba7efa12e46ac692c0 fix version in README]

by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane

2022-11-06 16:47:26

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/11bc02831d8eeb05c926dc0d25503b78fd6b09f8 updates v1.9.6]

by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane

2022-11-06 16:41:30

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/b98acab2b1db11187cba5cd78c7e3d19c5abe42c PRONOM v109]

by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane

2022-09-12 22:10:26

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a8940dbf462198c2c5e1775b4a12d2c54fff9000 tidy mod]

by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane

2022-09-12 22:09:46

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d45e338c71bcc43bd71f47fd2b809e6f90e4d2a9 prep for release]

by richardlehane https://github.com/richardlehane