File Conversion Tools

Filetype testing:

• FITS -- a nice combination of the major file identification tools http://code.google.com/p/fits/

• Comparison of DROID, JHOVE, NLNZ http://www.artefactual.com/wiki/index.php?title=DROID,_JHOVE,_NLNZ_Metadata_Extractor

• PRONOM Registry: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/Format/proFormatSearch.aspx?status=new

• DROID: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/droid/index.php?title=User_guide:_File_format_identification

Archivemata -- a useful sample architecture http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Software

Virus: http://code.google.com/p/clamavj/ clamAV testing

images

• ImageJ -- java native image editor and converter; easier to install and manage than ImageMagik http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/

• ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick (a fork)  http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php http://www.graphicsmagick.org

Documents

• Java tools for DOCX format http://openxmldeveloper.org/archive/category/1008.aspx

• POI Tools for Word (.doc) format http://poi.apache.org/hwpf/index.html

• OpenOffice Tools for converting documents:

  • unoconv -- format conversion http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/

  • http://dancrintea.ro/html-to-pdf/

  • http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=37995

Canadian Guidelines for format support http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/government/products-services/007002-3017-e.html

US Guide: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/

 http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/pdfs/DigitalArchivePolicyGuide.pdf