DROID News

DROID 6.1 has been released. New project hosting for the project can be found on GitHub: http://digital-preservation.github.com/droid/

DROID Mailing lists have been closed. Queries and support for the tool can now be found on Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/droid-list

The DROID 7 user consultation continues over at wikispaces.com: http://droid7.wikispaces.com/

After a period of down-time DROID 6.0 has now been re-released. The tool now correctly handles the latest signature files and has been regression tested against previous files to ensure it doesn't meet the same problem again.

DROID 6.01 is the latest release of a free file profiling tool from The National Archives. You can use to manage your digital information to ensure it remains usable (see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/digitalcontinuity\) and to support digital preservation.

DROID 6.0 has been taken temporarily off-line for a crucial bug-fix to be applied. An issue was discovered in the handling of signature file V46 which has also been taken off-line. DROID 6.0 will be made available again as soon as the problem has been identified and resolved.

DROID 6.0 is the latest release of a free file profiling tool from The National Archives. You can use to manage your digital information to ensure it remains usable (see www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/digitalcontinuity) and to support digital preservation.

You can use DROID to find out what versions of files you have, their size, and when they were last updated. This helps you to identify risks (and therefore plan mitigating actions). It can also help you to save money, for example by supporting data reduction.... read more