Supplier category: provided by national organisation

DROID

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DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) is a software tool (developed and managed by UK National Archives) designed to perform automated batch identification of file formats. It is the first in a planned series of tools developed by The National Archives under the umbrella of its PRONOM technical registry service. DROID is used for curation in Institutional Repositories.

NLNZ Metadata Extractor

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National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor (NLNZ Metadata Extractor) is a Java-based tool to extract preservation metadata from within the headers of a range of file formats (including PDF documents, image files, sound files and Microsoft Word documents). NLNZ Metadata Extractor saves this preservation metadata in XML format.

OAIster

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OAIster is a union catalog (currently managed by non-profit organisation OLCC) holding millions of records representing open access resources. The goal of OAIster is to create a collection of freely available, academically oriented, easily searchable digital resources. OAIster was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide using OAI-PMH.

PANIC

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Preservation webservices Architecture for Newmedia and Interactive Collections (PANIC) was an Australian project (developed by Distributed Systems Technology Centre) looking at preservation of new media artworks with aim to provide an integrated preservation framework. A key objective of the PANIC project was to develop and evaluate a semi-automated preservation system based on the Semantic Web services architecture.

PRONOM

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PRONOM is the online registry (managed by UK National Archives) of technical information about public file formats, software products, and other technical components required to support long-term access to electronic records and other digital objects of cultural, historical, or business value.