Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Hero or Villain? A Tool to Create a Digital Preservation Rogues Gallery

Hero or Villain? A Tool to Create a Digital Preservation Rogues Gallery. Ross Spencer. Open Preservation Foundation blog. 25 Aug 2015.
     The tool, droid-sqlite-analysis, will create a 'rogues gallery' out of any digital collection for which you have a DROID report. This identifies files that pose a digital preservation risk. It can also be used to:
  • enable users to work on copies of content that requires immediate attention
  • clone the directory structures (context) containing rogue content  
  • provide ingest and delivery of a 'clean' collection independent of a rogues collection to promote immediate access while file format issues are worked on in an isolated treatment environment
  • create working copies of only those files of immediate interest
  • reduce collection complexities and issues to show patterns in collection


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