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.
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Excellent, thanks Susan - I unsuccessfully looked for this last year after the demo.
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
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