August 2011 deposits

Time for the monthly deposit statistics:

# of files	# of deposits	File format
1	1	application/msaccess
2	1	application/msoffice
130	22	application/msword
104	6	application/octet-stream
715	29	application/pdf
30	10	application/vnd.ms-excel
6	2	application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
1	1	application/x-dosexec
1	1	application/x-empty
23	7	application/x-sas
67	12	application/x-spss
14	7	application/x-stata
4	3	application/x-zip
6	2	image/jpeg
6	3	message/rfc8220117bit
34	6	text/html
5	3	text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
8	4	text/plain; charset=unknown
420	28	text/plain; charset=us-ascii
1	1	text/plain; charset=utf-8
17	2	text/rtf
5	2	text/x-c; charset=unknown
7	1	text/x-c; charset=us-ascii
113	2	text/xml
2	1	very short file (no magic)

Lots of the usual kinds of stuff in August; maybe even a bit more than one would expect given the time of year.

There's the usual mistakes made by our file identity service; we're going to look at replacing or augmenting the current system (the UNIX file utility with a greatly expanded localmagic database + a wrapper that inspects the file extension) with something else.  We've spent just a tiny amount of time tinkering with Tika from the Apache project, and that looks promising.  This might even grow into a web service that we would share with others.

A couple of unusual items that merit closer inspection too, such as the purported DOS executable, and a bunch of (basically unrecognized) bitstreams.