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| Tool | Function | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| 3-Heights(TM) PDF Validator | Validation | 3-Heights(TM) PDF Validator from PDF-Tools AG. |
| 7-Zip | Rendering Transfer Fixity | 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio, and encryption and fixity check capabilities |
| 7train | Metadata Processing | XSLT 2.0 tool for generating METS files from XML input |
| ACE (Audit Control Environment) | Fixity | The Auditing Control Environment is a mature set of software designed to help libraries and archives prove their holdings are intact and trustworthy. |
| ADC Test | Validation | Tests and reports on audio analog-to-digital converters |
| ALTAG3D | File Management Storage Metadata Extraction Personal Archiving | An open source archive software |
| ARK plugin for Omeka | Persistent Identification | Generating and resolving ARK identifiers for resources in Omeka |
| AVP Fixity | Fixity | Fixity monitoring for digital collections |
| Aaru Data Preservation Suite | Backup Disk Imaging Metadata Extraction | Media dump software and disc image manager |
| Adobe Photoshop Elements | Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing Personal Archiving | A commercial image editor with a metadata module (Organizer). |
| Apache PDFBox | Metadata Extraction Repair File Format Migration Validation Encryption Detection | JAVA PDF library for creation, manipulation, validation and content extraction of PDF documents |
| Apache POI - the Java API for Microsoft Documents | File Format Migration Metadata Extraction Encryption Detection | 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). |
| Apache Tika | Metadata Extraction File Format Identification Text Extraction Embedded File Extraction | Java based tool for identifying file formats using signatures and extracting metadata and text content from documents. |
| Archive::BagIt | Fixity File Copy | BagIt API for Perl |
| ArchivesSpace | Access Metadata Processing | ArchivesSpace is the next-generation web-based archives information management system, designed by archivists and supported by diverse archival repositories. |
| Archivists' Toolkit | Metadata Processing | An open source archival data management system to provide broad, integrated support for the management of archives |
| Archon | Access Metadata Processing | Archon automatically publishes archival descriptive information and digital archival objects in a user-friendly website. |
| Ark service | Persistent Identification | ARK identifiers generator in python |
| AsTiffTagViewer | Quality Assurance | AsTiffTagViewer is a TIFF Tag Viewer application. |
| AudiAnnotate | Access Annotation Preservation System Workflow Academic Social Networking Personal Archiving Service Version Control Metadata Processing Rendering Discovery Persistent Identification Managing Active Research Data | 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. |
| BIL (BagIt Library) | Fixity File Copy | BagIt Library is a Java software library that supports the creation, manipulation and validation of bags. |
| BWF MetaEdit | Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing Validation | BWF MetaEdit permits embedding, validating, and exporting of metadata in Broadcast WAVE Format (BWF) files. |
| Bad Peggy | Validation Quality Assurance | Scans for damaged images and photos. |
| 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. |
| BitCurator | File Management Fixity Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing Quality Assurance Validation Workflow | 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. |
| BnL Mets Exporter | Metadata Processing | Command Line Interface (CLI) to export METS/ALTO documents to other formats. |
| Brunnhilde | Metadata Extraction Content Profiling Appraisal | Siegfried-based characterization of directories and disk images |
| C3PO | Content Profiling Metadata Extraction | C3PO is a content profiling tool for visualization and preservation analysis |
| CSV Validator | Metadata Processing Validation | Validation of CSV files against user-defined schema |
| Checkit tiff | Quality Assurance Validation | a tool to validate TIFF files against given configuration profile |
| Checksum (by Corz) | Fixity | Fast hashing tool using a GUI interface |
| Cksum Unix command | Fixity | cksum computes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) checksum for each given file, or standard input if none are given |
| Cloc | File Format Identification | 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. |
| CloudCompare | File Format Migration Multi Format Rendering Metadata Extraction | CloudCompare is a tool for editing and processing 3D point clouds and triangular meshes. |
| Collectus | Metadata Processing | The UVa Library's Collectus digital object collector tool allows users to to collect image or text objects from a repository. |
| ContextMiner | Metadata Processing Web Capture | ContextMiner is a framework to collect, analyze, and present the contextual information along with the data. |
| Crazy-fast-image-scan | File Format Identification Content Profiling Forensic | A script to scan media very quickly to find out what kind of content it contains |
| Curator's Workbench | Metadata Processing | Curator's Workbench is a tool that automates and streamlines the process of preparing collections of digital materials for submission to a repository |
| CyberChef | Encryption Detection File Management Decryption Metadata Extraction Personal Archiving Binary & Hexidecimal Editing Discovery | A forensic tool with workflow capabilities to analyse files and containers |
| 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. |
| DBPTK Developer | Validation File Format Migration | DBPTK Developer - library and command-line tool for exection of database preservation actions |
| DIMAG | Metadata Extraction Preservation System Access File Format Migration Storage Workflow | A software suite supporting archives with preservation of digital information for eternity |
| DIMAG IngestList | Metadata Extraction Transfer | Accompanies ingest process from donor to archive, logs process steps. |
| DNS | Metadata Processing File Format Migration Validation Preservation System | DNS - DA NRW Software Suite |
| DPF Manager | Validation | A TIFF validity checker |
| DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) | File Format Identification Metadata Extraction | DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) is a software tool developed to perform automated batch identification of file formats. |
| DUMPBIN Utility | Metadata Extraction File Format Identification | 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 | Quality Assurance Metadata Processing | 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 | Quality Assurance Metadata Processing | DVRescue is archivist-made software that supports data migration from DV tapes into digital files suitable for long-term preservation. |