OPF maintains a number of open source digital preservation tools that address common digital preservation challenges. Together, they form a reference toolset for digital preservation which can be adapted for use in different organisational workflows. Our current tools are mainly used in the pre-ingest and ingest stages of preservation, but our toolset is constantly evolving in response to the needs of our members.

Our tools are widely adopted by the community, and can be used as stand-alone tools, as part of a bespoke digital preservation workflow, or can be found embedded in several leading commercial solutions.

As an experienced leader in open source development, we believe that making our tools available under open source licences helps to support their long term sustainability. Not only does this approach help people to better understand the software they are using and adapt it to their requirements, it helps to ensure that our tools are thoroughly tested by a community of practitioners.

The tools in our reference toolset are mature and ready for use in production environments and workflows. To learn more about our participation in research and development projects, take a look at what we’re working on.

If you use our tools, please consider becoming an OPF member or making a donation to support our work.