Moonshine: a small part of the file format analyst’s toolkit
Today I released Moonshine 2.0.0. Moonshine is a a file format discovery tool I developed a few years ago. A…
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What information is in a file format identification report?
In early 2022, I was finally able to get around to writing a paper that I had been thinking about for the better part of a decade. The paper, “Fractal in Detail: What Information Is in a File Format Identification Report?” was published in the Code4Lib journal Issue 53.
The paper takes a deep dive into the fractal contents of file format identification reports exported from tools like Siegfried and DROID.
Let’s take a brief look the article and its contents below.
Architecture of The-FR.org
Last week I blogged about the publication of a new linked data format registry based on the work I did previously at The National Archives, UK.
Where the work goes, we will have to see. Open sourcing it was an important goal of the short sprint. Partly because I hope it demonstrates an architecture that can be adopted for a similar registry, and it may also provide a code-base that can be adapted for similar, linked open data projects. This blog provides an overview of that architecture…
the-fr.org :: The Format Registry
As the story goes, I got home last Thursday. 14 November, 2013; A tweet from the previous day, still on…
Hacking the DROID Signature File: Keep It Simple Stupid!
One of the nicest features introduced by the DROID 6.01 development team (Matt Palmer, Richard Flitcroft, Richard Brennan and Alok…
Hacking the DROID Signature File for Characterization
Identification of a format can be approached from many angles. Often a magic number will be used at the beginning…
The Skeleton Test Corpus
The second post to appear on my new and somewhat humble blog is the collection of some initial bits and…