Ross Spencer<p><b></b></p><p><strong><b>Published: Fractal in detail: What information is in a file format identification report?</b></strong></p><p><br>by <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-url mention" href="https://digipres.club/@beet_keeper" target="_blank">@beet_keeper</a></p><p>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.</p><p>I provide a brief summary of the paper and its contents below.</p> <a href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/published-fractal-in-detail-what-information-is-in-a-file-format-identification-report/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Continue reading<span class=""> “Published: Fractal in detail: What information is in a file format identification report?”</span>…</a> <p class=""><i></i> </p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/code4lib/" target="_blank">#Code4Lib</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/digipres/" target="_blank">#digipres</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/digital-preservation/" target="_blank">#DigitalPreservation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/droid/" target="_blank">#DROID</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/file-format-identification/" target="_blank">#FileFormatIdentification</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/file-formats/" target="_blank">#FileFormats</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/format-identification/" target="_blank">#formatIdentification</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/linting/" target="_blank">#Linting</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/metadata/" target="_blank">#Metadata</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/preservation-metadata/" target="_blank">#PreservationMetadata</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/pronom/" target="_blank">#PRONOM</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/puid/" target="_blank">#PUID</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/puids/" target="_blank">#PUIDS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/siegfried/" target="_blank">#siegfried</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/static-analysis/" target="_blank">#StaticAnalysis</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/technical-metadata/" target="_blank">#TechnicalMetadata</a></p>