Installing & Running Brunnhilde on Windows

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Brunnhilde is a companion tool to Siegfried, and Brunnhilde is very useful in creating reports from the inventory and file characterization data that Siegfried creates. While perhaps not essential, it is at this time a highly useful tool that can create reports that are useful for overall analysis of the files you’re working with, as well as a report to keep with the files as useful technical and provenance metadata.

Installation Step-By-Step

Before you install Brunnhilde, you must have Python 3 installed and running. This is likely ready to go if you have completed SI 506. If not, you may need to do that first. Instructions for setting up Python 3 can be found here and here. If you prefer to run in a virtual environment, you can also do that. Once Python 3 is ready, proceed to the next step.
Open up Visual Studio Code, and open a new Terminal pane there.
At the terminal prompt, you can use the pip command to install Brunnhilde: pip install brunnhilde.
If this doesn’t work, you can try running pip as a module thus: $ python -m pip isntall brunnhilde.
Now, you can call brunnhilde with the command brunnhilde.py [arguments] as you would other python programs.
Note that you may need to run this as a “module”, something like this:
python -m brunnhilde [arguments]

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Siegfried is a tool that you can use to characterize files, which means that it will assist in creating information about the kinds of files in a given location, their fixity, and other basic preservation information. You can also use it to link file type characterizations to the major file type registries, including the PUID (PRONOM Unique Identifier), FDD (Library of Congress Format Description Documents), and MIME Types (Multipurpose Internet Media Extensions, sometimes called Media Types). The goal of this activity is to create shared, reliable, and documented file format designations, when possible, so that you know what kind of stored digital information your collection has in it.

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Installing & Running Brunnhilde on Windows

Installation Step-By-Step

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