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:
- 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