Published: Fractal in detail: What information is in a file format identification report?

by @beet_keeper

In early 2022, I was finally able to get around to writing a paper that I had been thinking about for the better part of a decade. The paper, “Fractal in Detail: What Information Is in a File Format Identification Report?” was published via Code4Lib and examines the information that can be extracted from a file format identification report, e.g., reports such as those output from digital preservation tools like Siegfried and DROID.

I provide a brief summary of the paper and its contents below.

#Code4Lib #digipres #DigitalPreservation #DROID #FileFormatIdentification #FileFormats #formatIdentification #Linting #Metadata #PreservationMetadata #PRONOM #PUID #PUIDS #siegfried #StaticAnalysis #TechnicalMetadata