The following commonly-used tools can be applied to various projects. The child pages below this one contain detailed workflows and scripts using some of these tools. These workflows can be applied or adapted to meet many collection needs.
- FFmpeg: command line audiovisual file manipulation and conversion
- ImageMagick: command line image file manipulation and conversion
- On Windows, add the ImageMagick program directory to system path during installation to make command line operations easier
- OpenRefine: bulk metadata processing, manipulation, and templating
- Ubuntu WSL: Ubuntu Linux command line environment that runs within Windows
- Python: popular scripting language with a huge number of libraries and applications
- Anaconda: easy to install Python distribution and package manager. Comes with Spyder, a useful Python development environment
- Adobe Bridge: digital asset management software with many bulk file manipulation tools. Free to use with an Adobe ID.
- Notepad++: powerful and lightweight text editor for Windows
- Pandoc: universal markup format converter