File format identification at Norfolk Record Office
This is a guest post from Pawel Jaskulski who has recently completed a Transforming Archives traineeship at Norfolk Record Office (NRO). As part of his work at Norfolk and in response to a question I posed in a previous blog post ("Is identification of 37% of files a particularly bad result?") he profiled their digital holdings using DROID and has written up his findings. Coming from a local authority context, his results provide an interesting comparison with other profiles that have emerged from both the Hull History Centre and the Bentley Historical Library and again help to demonstrate that the figure of 37% identified files for my test research dataset is unusual. King's Lynn's borough archives are cared for jointly by the Borough Council and the Norfolk Record Office Profiling Digital Records with DROID With any local authority archive there is an assumption that the accession deposited might be literally anything. What it means in 'digital terms' is