SPEC Kit 329: Managing Born-Digital Special Collections and Archival Materials · 67
Tools
18. What software/services/tools does your library currently use or plan to use for digital processing
actions? Check all that apply. N=54
Currently Use Plan to Use N
Open source tool (e.g., Jhove, Droid, SENF, ADAPT ACE) 31 13 44
Outsourced service (e.g., Archive-It) 12 19 31
Home-grown tool 18 11 29
Commercial tool (e.g., Aid4Mail, IdentityFinder, etc.) 21 6 27
Other software/service/tool/approach 8 5 13
Number of Responses 42 30 54
Please list the specific tool and/or briefly describe your approach (from bandaid/bootstrap
approach to microservices software development) below.
Commercial tool(s) N=22
Adobe Bridge Photoshop
Archivists Toolkit, CONTENTdm
CONTENTdm and Shared Shelf currently being used.
CONTENTdm (2 responses)
CONTENTdm for access
Currently use Adobe Pro for conversion of some documents to PDF and PDF/A, and can anticipate using other
commercial products.
Forensic Tool Kit, Aid4Mail
FRED, FTK Imager
FTK FTK Imager ImgBurn Aid4Mail DVD Decrypter Md5Checker Catweasal ImageTool3 FC5025 Imager
ArchiveFacebook JR Directory Printer MediaJoin Quick View Plus SyncBack Kryoflux software PCMacLan
FTKImager (though free, proprietary), FileMerlin, Oxygen, Adobe Acrobat
Hitachi Content Platform, FAST search engine, alfresco (for our users’ work environment)
Identity Finder, McAfee Anti-Virus, FTK Imager (free), EmailChemy, and QuickView Plus
IdentityFinder
Isilon enterprise storage
Mac-legacy versions of iMovie hacked into earlier versions of product (all built into the Mac OS).
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