Just wanted to record a pointer to Manfred Thaller’s ‘shoot’ tool, which I saw demonstrated at a Planets preservation planning event sometime last year (see the posting). It’s a handy way to get a feel for which formats suffer most loss of functionality when damaged.
-Susan Thomas
So much for digital preservation! 🙂 The shoot tool has since vanished from this link. However, you can get the sourcecode here now:
http://github.com/mcarden/shotgun
Excellent, thanks Susan – I unsuccessfully looked for this last year after the demo.