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Signature file improvements? #80

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Hwesta opened this issue Oct 6, 2016 · 3 comments
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Signature file improvements? #80

Hwesta opened this issue Oct 6, 2016 · 3 comments
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Hwesta commented Oct 6, 2016

Some ideas for improving how signature files are handled

One idea is to use Roy to create signature files. This would allow access to a wider range of formats since it can include information from Apache Tika, freedesktop.org MIME-info and Library of Congress FDDs.

Another is to use DROID's signature files directly, since they're what PRONOM offers by default, and not have to perform a transformation. This may be a simpler change than above.

Other suggestions welcome!

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This needs decomposing in the light of other signature work, @carlwilson to pick up with sig file review.

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Another is to use DROID's signature files directly, since they're what PRONOM offers by default, and not have to perform a transformation. This may be a simpler change than above.

This isn't the case because the reason for compiling the sigs is that they can be then used with a standard regular expression engine. Using the PRONOM sigs "raw" would necessitate the development of a matching algorithm instead.

The idea of using Roy to allow other sig sources is definitely interesting though.

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Hackathon 2023 Review: Not selected for initial tasks. Adding support for multiple signature sources is likely a prerequisite. Doing that well/properly is a task in itself and should be logged as a feature request.

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