Roadmap

“There is a long road ahead yet,” said Gandalf.

“But it is the last road,” said Bilbo.

Platform

• Cross-platform: signed, packaged builds for Windows, Mac OS and Linux
• Multilingual support

Features

• Session persistence (Save and load sessions)
• Event annotations. E.g. explain filename change or file removal
• Export logged events as PREMIS metadata
• Metadata reconciliation: i.e. expect that fields match (e.g. for fixity checking) or satisfy defined criteria (e.g. for bad filename detection)
• Data entry: formulae
• Data entry: copy down/ fill column.
• Unarchiving/ decompression (inc. IMG, ISO, WARC, ZIP, tar.gz, 7z) of inputs Part done: Oct 2026
• Archiving/ compression of outputs
• Checklists/ Recipes/ playbooks - define multistep workflows. Done: Sept 2026
• Remote backend, local frontend
• Remote storage connectors for import and export (S3, SharePoint)
• Metadata extractors (exif)
• Metadata embedding
• Thumbnail creation
• Text extraction
• Metadata importing (e.g. from CSV) Started: Sept 2026
• PII and other classification features
• Mint persistent identifiers e.g. ARK
• Document relations: derivations, part of (e.g. thumbnail derivative of file, file extracted from zip)
• Plugins/ call external tools: imagemagick, FFMPEG, Exiftool, Tika
• Cryptographic signing (e.g. need for VERS)

Export formats

• OCFL
• METS
• VERS VEO
• EARK
• Preservica OPEX
• Rosetta PNX
• RO Crate
• Cinema Preservation Package (CPP)