[Pasig-discuss] Project Announcement - Archivematica HFS Disk Image Support

[Susan Malsbury]

Artefactual Systems, under sponsorship of the New York Public Library and
University of California, Los Angeles, has begun a project to develop
functionality in Archivematica to ingest, characterize, and extract files
from HFS disk images. Currently, Archivematica relies on tsk recover which
only recognizes 18 file systems
<https://gist.github.com/finoradin/654ff9f6d3d405a1edf5f1bf4f3ea155>;
correct file system identification is necessary for identifying and
invoking the correct tools for all subsequent steps in an Archivematica
pipeline. The first main development task in this project will be a
pre-ingest script, which could be used alone or in Automation Tools, that
identifies and records the file system of a disk image. Subsequent tasks
will be to develop tools that can characterize and extract files from HFS
disk images.

An overview of the project can be found on the Archivematica Wiki page:

https://wiki.archivematica.org/Improvements/Disk_Image_Preservation

All comments and contributors are welcome, particularly from people who
have done work in this area or would like to join in on the sponsorship of
this project! Please reach out to the Archivematica listserv
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/archivematica>, Shira Pelzman (
speltzman at library.ucla.edu) or Susan Malsbury (susanmalsbury at nypl.org)
<susanmalsbury at nypl.org>.

Thanks,

Susan

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*Digital Archivist, Archives Unit*

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