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FFI - File Format identification is a package for making sensible guesses about file formats from Url strings. FFI is structured as a package to clear the way for future improvements. The biggest avenue for improvement may be through integration with PRONOM: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/Default.aspx# PRONOM is a repository of file format signatures stored as XML. Currently the best tool for working with PRONOM is DROID, which is ill-suited to being run in web service oriented architectures. As a suggested path for implementation, one could first focus on wrapping DROID in a service that invokes droid-cli with a given set of bytes. This would happen in a separate pacakge from this one. Later we could sit down & learn how to properly parse PRONOM xml signature files & do byte comparison, which could bue implemented in this package. Anyone investigating this avenue may wish to also review some of the work accomplished translating the PRONOM registry: http://the-fr.org UPDATE 2017-04-24: looks like the File Information Tool Set from harvard may in fact be a better place to start: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/home
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purl: pkg:golang/github.com/datatogether/ffi
Keywords: golang, mime-types, package
License: AGPL-3.0
Latest release: almost 7 years ago
First release: almost 7 years ago
Namespace: github.com/datatogether
Dependent repositories: 2
Stars: 4 on GitHub
Forks: 0 on GitHub
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Last synced: 19 days ago