Open sustainable digital preservation We are a global not-for-profit membership organisation working to advance shared standards and solutions for the long-term preservation of digital content.

Explore our open source digital preservation toolset, our member-led development approach, and what’s coming up in our next releases.

A format identification, validation, and characterisation tool

An industry supported PDF/A validator

A command-line tool for file format identification

A validator and feature extractor for JP2 images

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The Open Preservation Foundation’s goal is to build on collaborative, practical approaches to advance digital preservation. Working to enable shared solutions for effective and efficient digital preservation, we lead a collaborative effort to create, maintain and develop the reference set of sustainable, open source digital preservation tools and supporting resources.

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