format-corpus
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An openly-licensed corpus of small example files, covering a wide range of formats and creation tools.

All items are CC0 licenced unless otherwise stated.

A recent summary of the contents of the repository can be found [here](http://www.opf-labs.org/format-corpus/tools/coverage/reports/).


How to Contribute
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See [the wiki](https://github.com/openpreserve/format-corpus/wiki#contributing) for more information.

See [metadata-template.ext.md](https://github.com/openplanets/format-corpus/blob/master/metadata-template.ext.md) for a simple per-file metadata template.


Pooled Signatures
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As well as pooling example files, we also pool format signatures:

* Tika signatures staged here: https://github.com/openplanets/format-corpus-tools/tree/master/tools/fidget/src/main/resources/tika-bl-staging
* Tika signatures later merged here: [https://github.com/openplanets/format-corpus-tools/blob/master/tools/fidget/src/main/resources/org/apache/tika/mime/custom-mimetypes.xml here]
* DROID signatures go [https://github.com/openplanets/format-corpus-tools/tree/master/tools/fidget/src/main/resources/droid here].

More details here: http://wiki.curatecamp.org/index.php/Improving_format_ID_coverage