Aim: Extraction of significant environment information during the creation, manipulation and use of DOs.
Status: Finished
Partners responsible: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, The University of Liverpool
License type: Apache v2 license (released on GitHub)
Language: Java
Additional information: Pericles blog post
Broader description: The PERICLES Extraction Tool (PET) is an open source (Apache 2 licensed) Java software for the extraction of significant information from the environment where digital objects are created and modified. This information supports object use and reuse, e.g. for a better long-term preservation of data. For the main part of the metadata extraction PET uses Apache TIKA and some other modules which are:

• CPU specification snapshot
• CPU usage monitoring
• Calculate file checksum
• Create custom executable command (file dependent)
• Create custom executable command (file independent)
• Directory Monitor Module
• FQDN
• File identification
• File store information (java.nio.file)
• File store information (sigar)
• File system information snapshot
• Google chrome opened tabs monitoring
• Graphic System properties snapshot
• Graphic card information module
• Installed software snapshot
• Java installation information snapshot
• LSOF use monitor
• List of network interfaces
• Log expression grep
• MediaInfo
• Memory monitoring
• Network information
• OS X Spotlight Command module
• Office document dependencies
• Operating System properties snapshot
• PDF Font dependencies
• Posix file information monitoring
• Process parameter
• Process statistics monitoring
• Regex text search
• Screenshot module
• System resources snapshot
• System swap monitoring
• TCP statistics monitoring
• Uptime
• Who (user, host, device, time)
• Windows Handle monitoring daemon
• XML xPath expression