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Tool | Function | Purpose |
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7-Zip | Rendering Transfer Fixity | 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio, and encryption and fixity check capabilities |
AFF Open Source Computer Forensics Software | Disk Imaging | 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. |
ANTS (Archives Network Transfer System) | Transfer | ANTS runs on a Windows desktop and is designed to package digital records with contextual metadata and transfer them to an institutional archives. |
Aaru Data Preservation Suite | Backup Disk Imaging Metadata Extraction | Media dump software and disc image manager |
ArchiFiltre | File Management Appraisal | Overview of folder trees with fine diagrams |
Archive-It | Service Web Capture | 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. |
Archive::BagIt | Fixity File Copy | BagIt API for Perl |
ArchiveBox | Web Capture Personal Archiving | ArchiveBox is an open source tool that lets organizations & individuals archive both public & private web content while retaining control over their data. |
ArchiveFacebook | Web Capture | ArchiveFacebook is a Firefox extension which allows individuals to save and manage Facebook web content. |
Artivity | Data capture and Deposit Workflow and Lab Notebook Management | A tool for capturing contextual data produced during the creative process of artists and designers while working on a computer. |
Autopsy Digital Forensics | Appraisal Content Profiling De-Duplication Disk Imaging Forensic | Open source, free digital forensics tool |
BIL (BagIt Library) | Fixity File Copy | BagIt Library is a Java software library that supports the creation, manipulation and validation of bags. |
BagIt Transfer Utilities | Fixity File Copy | BagIt transfer Utilities are a collection of tools developed for the purpose of validation and transfer of bags. |
Bagger | Fixity Transfer | GUI application to facilitate the creation and verification of BagIt bags. |
Brozzler | Web Capture | 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. |
Brunnhilde | Metadata Extraction Content Profiling Appraisal | Siegfried-based characterization of directories and disk images |
CDRDAO (CDR Disk At Once) | Disk Imaging | Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents. |
CINCH | Web Capture | CINCH (Capture INgest and CHecksum Tool) facilitates batch downloading and ingest of Internet-accessible documents and/or images to a central repository. |
CND3D | Active Data Storage Storage Managing Active Research Data Data capture and Deposit | Store, Preserve and publish 3D objects produced in Digital Humanities Research |
CRunch | Workflow and Lab Notebook Management Managing Active Research Data | cRunch provides an infrastructure for exploratory data analysis with the statistical programming language and environment R |
CloneCD | Disk Imaging | CloneCD is the perfect tool to make backup copies of your music and data CDs, regardless of copy protection. |
ContextMiner | Metadata Processing Web Capture | ContextMiner is a framework to collect, analyze, and present the contextual information along with the data. |
Cp Unix command | File Copy | cp copies files (or, optionally, directories). Part of GNU coreutils. |
Cryptcat | File Copy | Cryptcat is a lightweight version of netcat with integrated transport encryption capabilities. |
Curate.Us | Web Capture | 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. |
Czkawka | De-Duplication File Management Appraisal | Czkawka is a simple, fast and free app to remove unnecessary files from your computer. |
DART (Digital Archivist's Resource Tool) | Storage File Management Fixity Transfer | Provides both a GUI and a command-line interface for packaging files and uploading them to remote repositories. |
DArcMail | Data capture and Deposit Access Appraisal | Processing and access to email accounts |
DIMAG IngestList | Metadata Extraction Transfer | Accompanies ingest process from donor to archive, logs process steps. |
Dc3dd for computer forensics | Disk Imaging Forensic | dc3dd is a patched version of GNU dd with a number of features useful for computer forensics. |
Dcfldd | File Management Forensic File Copy | dcfldd is an enhanced version of GNU dd with features useful for forensics and security. |
Dd Unix command | File Copy | This page gives information on using the dd Unix command. |
Dd rescue | File Recovery Disk Imaging | dd_rescue is suitable for rescuing data from a medium with errors, i. |
DeepArc | File Format Migration Web Capture | Intended for preserving web sites from the back-end, this is a database-to-XML curation tool. |
DiPS (Digital Preservation Solution) | Access Active Data Storage File Format Identification File Format Migration File Management Metadata Extraction Preservation System Secure Deletion Service Storage Transfer Validation Workflow | DiPS (OAIS compliant Digital Preservation Solution) |
Disk2FDI | Backup Disk Imaging Forensic Personal Archiving | 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. |
DiskFormatID | Disk Imaging File Format Identification | Identify floppy disk formats from kryoflux stream files |
Disktype | Metadata Extraction Disk Imaging | Tool for detecting the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes. |
Docuteam packer | Appraisal Data capture and Deposit File Management Fixity Metadata Processing | Creates and edits SIPs |
Docworks | OCR Workflow Quality Assurance | Document digitization workflow software |
Double Commander | Fixity File Copy Batch Rename File Management De-Duplication | Open source file manager with two panels side by side |
DriveImage XML | Disk Imaging | DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. |
Duke Data Accessioner | File Copy File Format Identification Metadata Extraction Transfer Validation | 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. |
EPADD | Metadata Processing Metadata Extraction Content Profiling Access Appraisal | 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. |
Easy CD-DA Extractor | File Format Migration Metadata Extraction Disk Imaging | Easy CD-DA Extractor is CD Ripper, Music Converter, Audio Converter, Metadata Editor, and CD/DVD burning software. |
Exact Audio Copy | File Format Migration Metadata Extraction Disk Imaging | Exact Audio Copy is an audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives on Windows only. |
Exactly | Transfer | Packs data in BagIt bags and transfers them to/from remote location via FTP, SFTP |
FC5025 | Data capture and Deposit | 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. |
FCIV | Fixity Transfer | Generates and compares MD5 values stored in an XML file. |
Find It! Keep It! | Web Capture | Find It! Keep It! is a tool to save and organise web content. |
FreeCommander | File Management De-Duplication Fixity File Copy | Split-screen file manager with desirable extras |
GImageReader | OCR | A customisable GUI for Tesseract |
GNU Wget | Web Capture | Non-interactive network downloader |
GetDriveInfo2 | Disk Imaging | 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). |
Goobi | Workflow OCR Planning Quality Assurance | Workflow Management Tool |
HTTrack | Web Capture | HTTrack is a website copying utility. |
Heritrix | Web Capture | Heritrix is an open-source web crawler, allowing users to target websites they wish to include in a collection and to harvest an instance of each site. |
Heritrix plug-in for rich media capture | Web Capture | The Rich Media Capture module (RMC), developed in the LiWA (Living Web Archives) project, is designed to enhance the capturing capabilities of the crawler, with regards to different multimedia content types. |
IMAGE | Disk Imaging | IMAGE is a DOS application capable of generating either highly compressed or "flat" images for forensic analysis. |
IMacros | Quality Assurance Web Capture | iMacros makes it easy to test web-based applications. |
IsoBuster | Disk Imaging | Recover data from CD, DVD, BD, HDD, Flash drive, USB stick, media card, SD and SSD. |
Kepler | Workflow and Lab Notebook Management Managing Active Research Data | Kepler is a scientific workflow modelling and management system that enables users, regardless of programming experience, to set up data analysis pipelines. |
Khtml2png | Web Capture | khtml2png is a command line program to create screenshots of webpages. |
Kraken | OCR | Open Source turn-key OCR system forked from ocropus |
KryoFlux | Disk Imaging | Floppy disk controller software that accompanies a KryoFlux drive |
LabTrove | Workflow and Lab Notebook Management Managing Active Research Data | LabTrove is a blogging platform specifically designed for use in a research environment. |
Library (xklb) | File Management Quality Assurance Web Capture | Media indexing multi-tool |
Limb Processing | Metadata Processing OCR | Software for processing, enhancing and converting cultural heritage into digital cultural heritage |
MailExtract | Transfer | Extract Emails from many kinds of Mailbox formats |
Metaproducts | Web Capture | Metaproducts offers several commercial capture and off-line browsing tools. |
Micr'Olonys | Storage Access Passive Data Storage Backup Transfer File Recovery | Micr’Olonys is the software solution for long-term passive digital archiving on film and paper. |
MyExperiment | Workflow and Lab Notebook Management Managing Active Research Data Academic Social Networking Workflow | myExperiment is an online social networking service aimed at scientific researchers; the site fosters collaboration by allowing members to share scientific workflows, experiment plans, and other digital objects. |
NetarchiveSuite | Web Capture | NetarchiveSuite is a web archiving software package designed to plan, schedule and run web harvests of parts of the Internet. |
NumaHOP | Quality Assurance OCR | Platform for digitization projects management |
NutchWAX | Web Capture | NutchWAX is software for indexing ARC files (archived Web sites gathered using Heritrix) for full text search. |
OSFMount | Disk Imaging Forensic | disk image file mounting |
Optical-media-check | Disk Imaging | Collates information into a CSV from log files for a batch optical media rip |
Package Handler | File Management Metadata Processing Personal Archiving Validation Appraisal | View, create, edit, and validate Swiss archival packages |
PageVault | Web Capture | pageVault supports the archiving of all unique responses generated by a web server. |
Paranoia | Disk Imaging | "Use your CDROM drive to read audio tracks.... and have it actually work right!" |
Pearl Crescent Page Saver | Web Capture | Pearl Crescent Page Saver is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you capture images of web pages, including Flash content. |
PhotoRescue | Disk Imaging File Recovery | PhotoRescue is a picture and data recovery solution for digital film - sd cards, compact flash, memory sticks, microdrive, etc. |
Power ISO | Disk Imaging | PowerISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file processing tool, which allows you to open, extract, create, edit, compress, encrypt, split and convert ISO files, and mount these files with internal virtual drive. |
QPxTool | Disk Imaging | With QPxTool you can measure the quality of CDs and DVDs. |
RARC (ARC replicator) | Web Capture | rARC is a distributed system that enables Internet users to provide storage space from their computers to replicate small parts of the archived data stored in the central repository of the Web archive. |
RATOM | Appraisal Discovery Metadata Extraction | Review, Appraisal, and Triage of Mail (RATOM) is software to assist archives and other collecting organizations with email analysis, selection, and appraisal tasks |
RODA-In | Transfer Fixity Appraisal | The tool creates SIPs from files and folders available on the local file system. |
Rocfl | File Copy Storage | rocfl is a command line utility for interacting with OCFL repositories on the local filesystem or in S3. |
SPARQLing Unicorn QGIS Plugin | Data capture and Deposit Discovery Web Capture File Format Migration | Plugin for QGIS. Fetches data from Wikidata and other Linked Data SPARQL endpoints and adds a new layer in a QGIS project. Just insert a SPARQL query for Geo-Items and get a new vector layer into QGIS. |
SafeBack | Disk Imaging | SafeBack is used to create mirror-image (bit-stream) backup files of hard disks or to make a mirror-image copy of an entire hard disk drive or partition. |
SafeMover | Data capture and Deposit Transfer Fixity | Python tool to support the overtly "safe" copying of files from one location to another. Uses fixity, and OS file system metadata. |
Screen-scraper | Data capture and Deposit Web Capture | screen-scraper is a tool for extracting data from websites. |
SiteStory | Web Capture | SiteStory is a transactional web archive. It archives resources of a web server it is associated with. |
Snagit | Data capture and Deposit | Snagit is screen capture software to create interesting training documents, collaborative design work, IT bug reports, and more. |
Spadix software | Web Capture | Spadix Software can download websites from a starting URL, search engine results or web dirs, and is able to follow external links. |
Storytracker | Web Capture | Tools for tracking stories on news homepages |
Sumfolder1 | Appraisal De-Duplication Fixity | sumfolder1 is a utility for use within the archival and digital preservation community to generate checksums for file system directories, and to generate an overall "collection" checksum for a given set of files. The utility may be used in support of de-duplication at a directory/folder level. |
TOMES (Transforming Online Mail with Embedded Semantics) | File Format Migration Content Profiling Metadata Processing Data capture and Deposit | A package of open source tools for handling the preservation of government email records |
Tabula | Data capture and Deposit | Extract tabular data from PDF files |
Taverna | Workflow Workflow and Lab Notebook Management Managing Active Research Data | Taverna is a scientific workflow management system designed to assemble, run, document and share sequences sequences of web services and scripts. |
Teleport | Web Capture | Teleport is a web crawling tool that enables offline browsing |
TeraCopy | Transfer File Copy File Management | Performs file copying, whilst also logging and verifying accuracy and completeness by using checksums |
Tesseract-ocr | OCR | Open source OCR engine, accepting uncompressed TIFF files as input |
The DeDuplicator (Heritrix add-on module) | De-Duplication Web Capture | The DeDuplicator is an add-on module for Heritrix to reduce the amount of duplicate data collected in a series of snapshot crawls. |
Tree | Metadata Processing File Management Appraisal | Tree displays the directory structure of a path or of the disk in a drive graphically. |
TreeSize | File Management Appraisal | Manage disk space and scan your hard disks. |
TubeKit | Web Capture | TubeKit is a toolkit for creating YouTube crawlers. |
Tufts Submission-Agreement Builder Tool | Planning Data capture and Deposit | SABT is a web-based tool that guides records creators and records managers through the process of creating submission agreements, both for single transfers and for standing submissions. |
UKWA GSuite Add-On | Appraisal Validation | GSuite functions for people working with web archives. The functions use the Memento API (specifically the TimeGate) to look up whether a given archive holds a given URL. It currently supports checks against:
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UnArchiver | Decryption Fixity Transfer | UnArchiver is a native macOS utility which supports infinitely more archive formats then other common archiving utilities. |
VeraCrypt | Transfer Decryption | Securely encrypts large amounts of files |
Virtual CloneDrive | Disk Imaging | Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, but it exists only virtually. |
WARCreate | Personal Archiving Data capture and Deposit Web Capture | Google Chrome browser extension for creating WARC files from web pages |
WAS (Web Archiving Service) | Web Capture | The Web Archiving Service (WAS) is a Web-based curatorial tool that enables libraries and archivists to capture, curate, analyze, and preserve Web-based government and political information. |
WAXToolbar | Web Capture | WAXToolbar is a firefox extension to help users with common tasks encountered surfing a web archive. |
WCT (Web Curator Tool) | Metadata Processing Web Capture | Web Curator Tool (WCT) is a workflow management application for selective web archiving. |
WarcManager | File Management Web Capture | The WARC Manager is a web-based UI for managing and querying collections of web crawl data. |
Warrick | Web Capture | Warrick is a free utility for reconstructing (or recovering) a website from web archives. |
Wayback Machine | Access Discovery Web Capture | The Wayback Machine is a powerful search and discovery tool for use with collections of Web site "snapshots" collected through Web harvesting, usually with Heritrix (ARC or WARC files). |
Web Scraper Plus+ | Web Capture | Web Scraper Plus+ takes data from the web and puts it into a spreadsheet or database. |
WebCite | Persistent Identification Web Capture Citation and Impact Tracking | WebCite is an on-demand web archiving service that takes snapshots of Internet-accessible digital objects at the behest of users, storing the data on their own servers and assigning unique identifiers to those instances of the material. |
WebShot | Web Capture | WebShot allows you to take screenshots of web pages and save them as full sized images or thumbnails. |
Webkit2png | Web Capture | webkit2png is a command line tool that creates png screenshots of webpages. |
Webrecorder | Web Capture | Webrecorder is a hosted web archiving tool with which users can capture what they see as they browse websites and save that information (locally or to a free account) |
XXCopy | File Copy | XXCopy is an expanded version of Xcopy |
Xcopy | File Copy | Xcopy copies files and directories, including subdirectories. |
Xenu's Link Sleuth | Web Capture | The tool checks the hyperlinks on websites. |
YT-DLP (You Tube Download P) | Web Capture | Supports download of youtube videos, based on the now defunct YT-DL |