Improvements/Disk Image Preservation

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Synopsis

This project is being sponsored by UCLA Library and NYPL Special Collections but more collaborators are welcome! Please get in touch on the community user forum.

Different tools are needed for extraction of different disk images depending on what file system the disk image was created from. Archivematica's standard tool for disk image extraction is tsk recover, which is limited to 18 file systems. A challenge to invoking the right tool for the job is Archivematica's use of file format, rather than other characteristics (in this case, the file system). For example, if a disk image is identified as an ISO image, Archivematica will currently invoke tsk recover regardless of the file system of the image, where as tsk recover will only be able to extract the contents of the 18 file systems listed in the link above.

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