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== Hardware ==

*See [[System Hardware]] for analysis of the hardware required to transfer and process digital objects

== Software ==

=== Tools implemented (Oct 2009) ===

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|- style="background-color:#cccccc;"
!style="width:20%"|'''Tool'''
!style="width:10%"|'''Version'''
!style="width:50%"|'''Description'''
!style="width:40%"|'''License'''
|-
|-
|[http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu Linux]
|9.0.4
|Interface with computing hardware
|GNU General Public License (GPL)
|-
|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3 EXT3 filesystem]
|9.0.4
|Local storage, organization and batch processing of digital objects within the virtual appliance
|GNU General Public License (GPL)
|-
|[http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus GNOME Nautilus file manager]
|1.4.1
|Graphical file manager interface which end-user can use to move digital objects or trigger processing scripts.
|GNU General Public License (GPL)
|-
|[http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man2/flock.2.html flock]
|2
|File lock utility used to queu objects through the workflow and prevent processing overload
|GNU General Public License (GPL)
|-
|[http://code.google.com/p/fits/ File Information Tool Set (FITS)]
|0.2.5
|File format identification and validation software integration tool
|GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
|-
|[http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/droid/index.php?title=Main_Page DROID]
|4.0
|File format identification
|BSD
|-
|[http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/index.html JHOVE]
|1.4
|File format validation and metadata extraction
|GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
|-
|[http://meta-extractor.sourceforge.net/ NLNZ Metadata Extractor]
|3.4
|File format identification and metadata extraction
|Apache Public License (version 2)
|-
|[http://www.clamav.net/ Clam AV (anti-virus)]
|0.95.2
|Anti-virus toolkit for UNIX
|GNU General Public License (GPL)
|-
|[http://xena.sourceforge.net/ Xena]
|4.2.1
|Normalization of objects from proprietary formats to xml-based non-proprietary formats, including Open Office Document (ODF) format
|GNU General Public License version 2 (GPL2)
|-
|[http://www.openoffice.org OpenOffice.org]
|3.0.1
|Office software suite; invoked by Xena to normalize office documents to ODF
|GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
|-
|[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM md5sum scripts (makeMD5 and checkMD5)]
|1.0
|Checksum generation and verification scripts
|GNU General Public License (GPL)
|-
|[http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/challenge/data-transfer.html BagIt script]
|0.96
|Standard and script to package digital objects and metadata for archival storage
|n/a
|-
|[http://us1.samba.org/samba/ Samba/CIFS ]
|3.3.2
|Linux to Windows interface; allows applications in the Ubuntu virtual appliance environment to use network storage made available via the Windows CIFS protocol
|GNU General Public License (GPL)
|-
|[http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/g/nfscommon.htm NFS-common]
|1.1.4
|Network File System Access - allows access to files on network storage devices.
|GNU General Public License (GPL)
|-
|[http://www.qubit-toolkit.org Qubit]
|1.0.7
|Web-based archival description and access tool
|GNU General Public License v2 (GPL2)
|-
|}

=== Tools implemented (Jan 2010) ===

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|- style="background-color:#cccccc;"
!style="width:20%"|'''Tool'''
!style="width:10%"|'''Version'''
!style="width:50%"|'''Description'''
!style="width:40%"|'''License'''
|-
|-
|[http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ rsync]
|3.0.7
|For incremental file transfer to external drives or other media.
|GNU General Public License (GPL)
|-
|[http://www.cygwin.com/ Cygwin]
|1.7.1
|Creates a Linux-like environment in Windows so we can run rsync
|GNU General Public License (GPL)
|-
|[http://www.httrack.com/ HTTrack]
|3.43-9
|Website copier
|GNU General Public License (GPL)
|-
|[http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ Gparted]
|0.5.1
|GNOME partition editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions
|GNU General Public License (GPL)
|-
|[http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/ hashdeep]
|3.5.1
|A program to compute, match, and audit hashsets during transfers.
|PUBLIC DOMAIN with GNU General Public License (GPL) components
|-
|[http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/ grsync]
|1.0
|Grsync is used to synchronize folders, files and make backups on Ubuntu.
|GNU General Public License (GPL)
|-
|[http://darwinports.com/ darwinports]
|1.7
|
|GNU General Public License (GPL)
|-
|}

=== Tools reviewed (Jan 2009 - Sept 2009) ===

*Ingest
**[http://www.clamav.net/ Clam AV (anti-virus)]
**[http://meta-extractor.sourceforge.net/ NLNZ Metadata Extractor]
**[http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/index.html JHOVE], [http://confluence.ucop.edu/display/JHOVE2Info/Home JHOVE2]
**[http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/droid/index.php?title=Main_Page DROID/PRONOM (TNA)]
**[http://www.jonelo.de/java/jacksum/index.html Jacksum]
**[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM md5sum]
**[http://xena.sourceforge.net/ XENA (NAA)]
**[http://code.google.com/p/fits/ File Information Tool Set (FITS)]
**[http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/challenge/data-transfer.html Library of Congress BagIt script]
*(Meta)Data Management
**[http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/ XMLStarlet]
**[http://ica-atom.org ICA-AtoM]
**[http://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/open/projects/openmic/ OpenMIC]
*Archival Storage
**[http://www.amanda.org/ AMANDA]
**[https://www.irods.org/index.php/IRODS:Data_Grids%2C_Digital_Libraries%2C_Persistent_Archives%2C_and_Real-time_Data_Systems iRODS]
**[http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/whatis/ Sun ZFS]
**[http://ceph.newdream.net CEPH]
**[http://www.pvfs.org/ PVFS]
**(VAN) SAN/NAS
*Access
**[http://ica-atom.org ICA-AtoM]
*Preservation Planning
*Administration
**Requirements Management : [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Mediawiki]
**Documentation: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
**Version Control: [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion]

=== Tool Evaluations ===

*[[DROID, JHOVE, NLNZ Metadata Extractor]]
*Archival Storage requirements: [[RQ-2#Native_attributes_of_these_file_systems | iRODS vs ZFS vs CEPH vs PVFS]]
**[[iRODS]]

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