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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 in the Code4Lib journal Issue 53.

The paper takes a deep dive into the fractal contents of file format identification reports exported from tools like Siegfried and DROID.

Let’s take a brief look the article and its contents below.

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Abstract from Fractal in Detail: What information is in a file format identification report from the Code4Lib Journal.Abstract from Fractal in Detail: What information is in a file format identification report from the Code4Lib Journal.
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