fido 1.6.0 release candidate out now
The first release candidate for fido 1.6.0 is now available for community testing. Fido (Format Identification for Digital Objects) is an open-source command-line tool to identify...
The first release candidate for fido 1.6.0 is now available for community testing. Fido (Format Identification for Digital Objects) is an open-source command-line tool to identify...
Fido 1.6 is now available for download. Fido (Format Identification for Digital Objects) is an open-source command-line tool to identify the file formats of digital...
Fido 1.6 RC5 is now available for download for community testing. Fido (Format Identification for Digital Objects) is an open-source command-line tool to identify the...
This webinar offers a user’s guide to what’s changed in the latest v1.26 JHOVE release, which incorporates the contributions made during our 2020 Spring Hackathon. Highlights...
Open sustainable digital preservationWe are a global not-for-profit membership organisation working to advance shared standards and solutions for the long-term preservation of digital content. Tools...
We have created a testing framework based on the Govdocs1 digital Corpora (http://digitalcorpora.org/corpora/files), and are using the characterisation results from Forensic Innovations, Inc. ((http://www.forensicinnovations.com/), as ground truths. We have tested Tika 1.0, Fido 0.9.6 and Droid 6.0 with the V45 signature file. Tika generally performs best for all the 20 most common formats. Especially for text files (text/plain), it is the only tested tool that correctly identifies the files. Tika is the fastests of the tools, and Fido is the slowest.