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FITS (File Information Tool Set)

2018-09-24T16:01:15Z

Rvveenendaal:

{{Infobox_tool
|purpose=FITS allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository.
|image=
|homepage=http://fitstool.org
|license=[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html GNU Lesser General Public License]
|platforms=Windows or Unix
}}


[[Category:File Format Identification]]
[[Category:Validation]]
[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]
[[Category:Encryption Detection]]

= Description =
The File Information Tool Set ([http://fitstool.org FITS]) identifies, validates and extracts technical metadata for a wide range of file formats. It acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file.

=== Provider ===
Harvard Library

=== Platform and interoperability ===
FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.7 or higher.
The tools used in version 1.3.0 of FITS are:
* [[ADL Tool]]
* [[Apache Tika]]
* [[DROID_(Digital_Record_Object_Identification)|DROID]]
* [[ExifTool]]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20061106114156/http://schmidt.devlib.org/ffident/index.html FFIdent] (no longer maintained)
* [[http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?file File Utility] (windows port)
* [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
* [[MediaInfo]]
* [[Metadata_Extraction_Tool]]
* [[OIS Audio Information]]
* [[OIS File Information]]
* [[OIS XML Information]]

Instructions for command line use are given for Windows and Unix.

=== Functional notes ===
FITS acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file. Technical metadata is only output (and a part of the consolidation process) for tools that were able to identify the file. All other output is discarded.

=== Documentation and user support ===
Documentation exists in the form of a user manual and more technical developer manual.
The project actively uses the fits-users google group has 78 (Sept. 24, 2018) members, and is active as of January 2012.
The FITS web site links to a [https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits github site] that includes the source code and an issues tracker.

=== Usability ===
FITS uses a command line interface; it is designed to be integrated into other software workflows, and so is aimed at those with application design experience. In January 2016, version 1.0.0 of the FITS [https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/downloads#fits-servlet web service] was released, giving the ability to deploy FITS as a service.

=== Expertise required ===
Installation and configuration require deep systems administration and application design knowledge, as well as familiarity with file format and metadata standards.

=== Standards compliance ===
FITS outputs in XML format. A detailed description of the FITS-XML can be found [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/fits-xml here] and an analysis of the output data [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/understanding-output here].

=== Influence and take-up ===
The FITS website shows over 2000 downloads of the software.
The tool was designed for and is in use at the Harvard Library [http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/drs/ Digital Repository Service].

= User Experiences =

* '''National Archives of the Netherlands:'''
** How [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2017/05/17/preservation-impact-assessments-how-preservation-tools-support-naneths-connection-projects/ FITS] supports pre-ingest impact assessments at the National Archives of the Netherlands.
* '''DNB (German National Library):'''
** FITS v0.6.1 with modified [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| Jhove 1.11]], Gentoo Linux, Java-Environment, Tomcat-Application Server
** Since the end of 2012, DNB uses the FITS library as a part of its risk management within the automated ingest process. At present more than 1500 files are daily examined by FITS.
*** The purpose of the risk management and its implementation with metadata tools like FITS or JHOVE is to facilitate automatic technical quality checking (bitstream integrity and validation) of each digital publications. Furthermore, the analysis is aimed at recognising technical restrictions such as DRM at an early stage, which hinder or even prevent the task of long-term preservation and use of the digital objects.
*** The extracted technical metadata (the FITS output) are used further for future long-term preservation measures such as format migration and are stored and managed in the metadata management of the long-term archive of the DNB. The capture of these metadata is essential in order to execute targeted migration measures of files in endangered formats.
*** FITS also offers significant benefit in the form of easily configurable standardisation of the different tool outputs into the FITS format using XSLT. The DNB has used this function to adapt the FITS output to its own requirements, e.g. incorporating other metadata elements not included in the FITS distribution into the standardisation.
*** A further adjustment, which the DNB has made, is the integration of a DNB tool to analyse files in ePub format.

* '''ZBW (German National Library of Economics):''' [https://wiki.dnb.de/display/NESTOR/ZBW+user+experience+with+FITS Link to the user experience of the ZBW]

= Development Activity =

FITS 0.2.0 was first released as open source in July 2009. As of April 2014 the latest release was version 0.8, released in January 2014. The tool was created to be used in Harvard's Digital Repository Service, and development is active and ongoing.

All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits

=== Release Feed ===
Below the last 3 release feeds:
<rss max=3>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/releases.atom</rss>

=== Activity Feed ===
Below the last 5 commits:
<rss max=5>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits/master.atom</rss>

{{Infobox_tool_details
|ohloh_id=fits
}}

FITS (File Information Tool Set)

2018-09-24T16:00:49Z

Rvveenendaal:

{{Infobox_tool
|purpose=FITS allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository.
|image=
|homepage=http://fitstool.org
|license=[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html GNU Lesser General Public License]
|platforms=Windows or Unix
}}


[[Category:File Format Identification]]
[[Category:Validation]]
[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]
[[Category:Encryption Detection]]

= Description =
The File Information Tool Set ([http://fitstool.org FITS]) identifies, validates and extracts technical metadata for a wide range of file formats. It acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file.

=== Provider ===
Harvard Library

=== Platform and interoperability ===
FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.7 or higher.
The tools used in version 1.3.0 of FITS are:
* [[ADL Tool]]
* [[Apache Tika]]
* [[DROID_(Digital_Record_Object_Identification)|DROID]]
* [[ExifTool]]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20061106114156/http://schmidt.devlib.org/ffident/index.html FFIdent] (no longer maintained)
* [[http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?file File Utility] (windows port)
* [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
* [[MediaInfo]]
* [[Metadata_Extraction_Tool]
* [[OIS Audio Information]]
* [[OIS File Information]]
* [[OIS XML Information]]

Instructions for command line use are given for Windows and Unix.

=== Functional notes ===
FITS acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file. Technical metadata is only output (and a part of the consolidation process) for tools that were able to identify the file. All other output is discarded.

=== Documentation and user support ===
Documentation exists in the form of a user manual and more technical developer manual.
The project actively uses the fits-users google group has 78 (Sept. 24, 2018) members, and is active as of January 2012.
The FITS web site links to a [https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits github site] that includes the source code and an issues tracker.

=== Usability ===
FITS uses a command line interface; it is designed to be integrated into other software workflows, and so is aimed at those with application design experience. In January 2016, version 1.0.0 of the FITS [https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/downloads#fits-servlet web service] was released, giving the ability to deploy FITS as a service.

=== Expertise required ===
Installation and configuration require deep systems administration and application design knowledge, as well as familiarity with file format and metadata standards.

=== Standards compliance ===
FITS outputs in XML format. A detailed description of the FITS-XML can be found [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/fits-xml here] and an analysis of the output data [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/understanding-output here].

=== Influence and take-up ===
The FITS website shows over 2000 downloads of the software.
The tool was designed for and is in use at the Harvard Library [http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/drs/ Digital Repository Service].

= User Experiences =

* '''National Archives of the Netherlands:'''
** How [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2017/05/17/preservation-impact-assessments-how-preservation-tools-support-naneths-connection-projects/ FITS] supports pre-ingest impact assessments at the National Archives of the Netherlands.
* '''DNB (German National Library):'''
** FITS v0.6.1 with modified [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| Jhove 1.11]], Gentoo Linux, Java-Environment, Tomcat-Application Server
** Since the end of 2012, DNB uses the FITS library as a part of its risk management within the automated ingest process. At present more than 1500 files are daily examined by FITS.
*** The purpose of the risk management and its implementation with metadata tools like FITS or JHOVE is to facilitate automatic technical quality checking (bitstream integrity and validation) of each digital publications. Furthermore, the analysis is aimed at recognising technical restrictions such as DRM at an early stage, which hinder or even prevent the task of long-term preservation and use of the digital objects.
*** The extracted technical metadata (the FITS output) are used further for future long-term preservation measures such as format migration and are stored and managed in the metadata management of the long-term archive of the DNB. The capture of these metadata is essential in order to execute targeted migration measures of files in endangered formats.
*** FITS also offers significant benefit in the form of easily configurable standardisation of the different tool outputs into the FITS format using XSLT. The DNB has used this function to adapt the FITS output to its own requirements, e.g. incorporating other metadata elements not included in the FITS distribution into the standardisation.
*** A further adjustment, which the DNB has made, is the integration of a DNB tool to analyse files in ePub format.

* '''ZBW (German National Library of Economics):''' [https://wiki.dnb.de/display/NESTOR/ZBW+user+experience+with+FITS Link to the user experience of the ZBW]

= Development Activity =

FITS 0.2.0 was first released as open source in July 2009. As of April 2014 the latest release was version 0.8, released in January 2014. The tool was created to be used in Harvard's Digital Repository Service, and development is active and ongoing.

All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits

=== Release Feed ===
Below the last 3 release feeds:
<rss max=3>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/releases.atom</rss>

=== Activity Feed ===
Below the last 5 commits:
<rss max=5>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits/master.atom</rss>

{{Infobox_tool_details
|ohloh_id=fits
}}

FITS (File Information Tool Set)

2018-09-24T15:58:58Z

Rvveenendaal:

{{Infobox_tool
|purpose=FITS allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository.
|image=
|homepage=http://fitstool.org
|license=[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html GNU Lesser General Public License]
|platforms=Windows or Unix
}}


[[Category:File Format Identification]]
[[Category:Validation]]
[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]
[[Category:Encryption Detection]]

= Description =
The File Information Tool Set ([http://fitstool.org FITS]) identifies, validates and extracts technical metadata for a wide range of file formats. It acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file.

=== Provider ===
Harvard Library

=== Platform and interoperability ===
FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.7 or higher.
The tools used in version 1.3.0 of FITS are:
* [[ADL Tool]]
* [[Apache Tika]]
* [[DROID_(Digital_Record_Object_Identification)|DROID]]
* [[ExifTool]]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20061106114156/http://schmidt.devlib.org/ffident/index.html FFIdent] (no longer maintained)
* [[http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?file File Utility] (windows port)
* [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
* [[MediaInfo]]
* [[Metadata_Extraction_Tool| National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor]
* [[OIS Audio Information]]
* [[OIS File Information]]
* [[OIS XML Information]]

Instructions for command line use are given for Windows and Unix.

=== Functional notes ===
FITS acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file. Technical metadata is only output (and a part of the consolidation process) for tools that were able to identify the file. All other output is discarded.

=== Documentation and user support ===
Documentation exists in the form of a user manual and more technical developer manual.
The project actively uses the fits-users google group has 78 (Sept. 24, 2018) members, and is active as of January 2012.
The FITS web site links to a [https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits github site] that includes the source code and an issues tracker.

=== Usability ===
FITS uses a command line interface; it is designed to be integrated into other software workflows, and so is aimed at those with application design experience. In January 2016, version 1.0.0 of the FITS [https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/downloads#fits-servlet web service] was released, giving the ability to deploy FITS as a service.

=== Expertise required ===
Installation and configuration require deep systems administration and application design knowledge, as well as familiarity with file format and metadata standards.

=== Standards compliance ===
FITS outputs in XML format. A detailed description of the FITS-XML can be found [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/fits-xml here] and an analysis of the output data [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/understanding-output here].

=== Influence and take-up ===
The FITS website shows over 2000 downloads of the software.
The tool was designed for and is in use at the Harvard Library [http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/drs/ Digital Repository Service].

= User Experiences =

* '''National Archives of the Netherlands:'''
** How [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2017/05/17/preservation-impact-assessments-how-preservation-tools-support-naneths-connection-projects/ FITS] supports pre-ingest impact assessments at the National Archives of the Netherlands.
* '''DNB (German National Library):'''
** FITS v0.6.1 with modified [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| Jhove 1.11]], Gentoo Linux, Java-Environment, Tomcat-Application Server
** Since the end of 2012, DNB uses the FITS library as a part of its risk management within the automated ingest process. At present more than 1500 files are daily examined by FITS.
*** The purpose of the risk management and its implementation with metadata tools like FITS or JHOVE is to facilitate automatic technical quality checking (bitstream integrity and validation) of each digital publications. Furthermore, the analysis is aimed at recognising technical restrictions such as DRM at an early stage, which hinder or even prevent the task of long-term preservation and use of the digital objects.
*** The extracted technical metadata (the FITS output) are used further for future long-term preservation measures such as format migration and are stored and managed in the metadata management of the long-term archive of the DNB. The capture of these metadata is essential in order to execute targeted migration measures of files in endangered formats.
*** FITS also offers significant benefit in the form of easily configurable standardisation of the different tool outputs into the FITS format using XSLT. The DNB has used this function to adapt the FITS output to its own requirements, e.g. incorporating other metadata elements not included in the FITS distribution into the standardisation.
*** A further adjustment, which the DNB has made, is the integration of a DNB tool to analyse files in ePub format.

* '''ZBW (German National Library of Economics):''' [https://wiki.dnb.de/display/NESTOR/ZBW+user+experience+with+FITS Link to the user experience of the ZBW]

= Development Activity =

FITS 0.2.0 was first released as open source in July 2009. As of April 2014 the latest release was version 0.8, released in January 2014. The tool was created to be used in Harvard's Digital Repository Service, and development is active and ongoing.

All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits

=== Release Feed ===
Below the last 3 release feeds:
<rss max=3>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/releases.atom</rss>

=== Activity Feed ===
Below the last 5 commits:
<rss max=5>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits/master.atom</rss>

{{Infobox_tool_details
|ohloh_id=fits
}}

FITS (File Information Tool Set)

2018-09-24T15:58:00Z

Rvveenendaal:

{{Infobox_tool
|purpose=FITS allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository.
|image=
|homepage=http://fitstool.org
|license=[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html GNU Lesser General Public License]
|platforms=Windows or Unix
}}


[[Category:File Format Identification]]
[[Category:Validation]]
[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]
[[Category:Encryption Detection]]

= Description =
The File Information Tool Set ([http://fitstool.org FITS]) identifies, validates and extracts technical metadata for a wide range of file formats. It acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file.

=== Provider ===
Harvard Library

=== Platform and interoperability ===
FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.7 or higher.
The tools used in version 1.3.0 of FITS are:
* [[ADL Tool]]
* [[Apache Tika]]
* [[DROID_(Digital_Record_Object_Identification)|DROID]]
* [[ExifTool]]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20061106114156/http://schmidt.devlib.org/ffident/index.html FFIdent] (no longer maintained)
* [[http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?file File Utility] (windows port)
* [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
* [[MediaInfo]]
* [Metadata_Extraction_Tool National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor]
* [[OIS Audio Information]]
* [[OIS File Information]]
* [[OIS XML Information]]

Instructions for command line use are given for Windows and Unix.

=== Functional notes ===
FITS acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file. Technical metadata is only output (and a part of the consolidation process) for tools that were able to identify the file. All other output is discarded.

=== Documentation and user support ===
Documentation exists in the form of a user manual and more technical developer manual.
The project actively uses the fits-users google group has 78 (Sept. 24, 2018) members, and is active as of January 2012.
The FITS web site links to a [https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits github site] that includes the source code and an issues tracker.

=== Usability ===
FITS uses a command line interface; it is designed to be integrated into other software workflows, and so is aimed at those with application design experience. In January 2016, version 1.0.0 of the FITS [https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/downloads#fits-servlet web service] was released, giving the ability to deploy FITS as a service.

=== Expertise required ===
Installation and configuration require deep systems administration and application design knowledge, as well as familiarity with file format and metadata standards.

=== Standards compliance ===
FITS outputs in XML format. A detailed description of the FITS-XML can be found [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/fits-xml here] and an analysis of the output data [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/understanding-output here].

=== Influence and take-up ===
The FITS website shows over 2000 downloads of the software.
The tool was designed for and is in use at the Harvard Library [http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/drs/ Digital Repository Service].

= User Experiences =

* '''National Archives of the Netherlands:'''
** How [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2017/05/17/preservation-impact-assessments-how-preservation-tools-support-naneths-connection-projects/ FITS] supports pre-ingest impact assessments at the National Archives of the Netherlands.
* '''DNB (German National Library):'''
** FITS v0.6.1 with modified [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| Jhove 1.11]], Gentoo Linux, Java-Environment, Tomcat-Application Server
** Since the end of 2012, DNB uses the FITS library as a part of its risk management within the automated ingest process. At present more than 1500 files are daily examined by FITS.
*** The purpose of the risk management and its implementation with metadata tools like FITS or JHOVE is to facilitate automatic technical quality checking (bitstream integrity and validation) of each digital publications. Furthermore, the analysis is aimed at recognising technical restrictions such as DRM at an early stage, which hinder or even prevent the task of long-term preservation and use of the digital objects.
*** The extracted technical metadata (the FITS output) are used further for future long-term preservation measures such as format migration and are stored and managed in the metadata management of the long-term archive of the DNB. The capture of these metadata is essential in order to execute targeted migration measures of files in endangered formats.
*** FITS also offers significant benefit in the form of easily configurable standardisation of the different tool outputs into the FITS format using XSLT. The DNB has used this function to adapt the FITS output to its own requirements, e.g. incorporating other metadata elements not included in the FITS distribution into the standardisation.
*** A further adjustment, which the DNB has made, is the integration of a DNB tool to analyse files in ePub format.

* '''ZBW (German National Library of Economics):''' [https://wiki.dnb.de/display/NESTOR/ZBW+user+experience+with+FITS Link to the user experience of the ZBW]

= Development Activity =

FITS 0.2.0 was first released as open source in July 2009. As of April 2014 the latest release was version 0.8, released in January 2014. The tool was created to be used in Harvard's Digital Repository Service, and development is active and ongoing.

All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits

=== Release Feed ===
Below the last 3 release feeds:
<rss max=3>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/releases.atom</rss>

=== Activity Feed ===
Below the last 5 commits:
<rss max=5>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits/master.atom</rss>

{{Infobox_tool_details
|ohloh_id=fits
}}

FITS (File Information Tool Set)

2018-09-24T15:54:33Z

Rvveenendaal:

{{Infobox_tool
|purpose=FITS allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository.
|image=
|homepage=http://fitstool.org
|license=[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html GNU Lesser General Public License]
|platforms=Windows or Unix
}}


[[Category:File Format Identification]]
[[Category:Validation]]
[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]
[[Category:Encryption Detection]]

= Description =
The File Information Tool Set ([http://fitstool.org FITS]) identifies, validates and extracts technical metadata for a wide range of file formats. It acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file.

=== Provider ===
Harvard Library

=== Platform and interoperability ===
FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.7 or higher.
The tools used in version 1.3.0 of FITS are:
* [[ADL Tool]]
* [[Apache Tika]]
* [[DROID_(Digital_Record_Object_Identification)|DROID]]
* [[ExifTool]]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20061106114156/http://schmidt.devlib.org/ffident/index.html FFIdent] (no longer maintained)
* [[http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?file File Utility] (windows port)
* [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
* [[MediaInfo]]
* [[Metadata_Extraction_Tool] National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor]
* [[OIS Audio Information]]
* [[OIS File Information]]
* [[OIS XML Information]]

Instructions for command line use are given for Windows and Unix.

=== Functional notes ===
FITS acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file. Technical metadata is only output (and a part of the consolidation process) for tools that were able to identify the file. All other output is discarded.

=== Documentation and user support ===
Documentation exists in the form of a user manual and more technical developer manual.
The project actively uses the fits-users google group has 78 (Sept. 24, 2018) members, and is active as of January 2012.
The FITS web site links to a [https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits github site] that includes the source code and an issues tracker.

=== Usability ===
FITS uses a command line interface; it is designed to be integrated into other software workflows, and so is aimed at those with application design experience. In January 2016, version 1.0.0 of the FITS [https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/downloads#fits-servlet web service] was released, giving the ability to deploy FITS as a service.

=== Expertise required ===
Installation and configuration require deep systems administration and application design knowledge, as well as familiarity with file format and metadata standards.

=== Standards compliance ===
FITS outputs in XML format. A detailed description of the FITS-XML can be found [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/fits-xml here] and an analysis of the output data [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/understanding-output here].

=== Influence and take-up ===
The FITS website shows over 2000 downloads of the software.
The tool was designed for and is in use at the Harvard Library [http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/drs/ Digital Repository Service].

= User Experiences =

* '''National Archives of the Netherlands:'''
** How [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2017/05/17/preservation-impact-assessments-how-preservation-tools-support-naneths-connection-projects/ FITS] supports pre-ingest impact assessments at the National Archives of the Netherlands.
* '''DNB (German National Library):'''
** FITS v0.6.1 with modified [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| Jhove 1.11]], Gentoo Linux, Java-Environment, Tomcat-Application Server
** Since the end of 2012, DNB uses the FITS library as a part of its risk management within the automated ingest process. At present more than 1500 files are daily examined by FITS.
*** The purpose of the risk management and its implementation with metadata tools like FITS or JHOVE is to facilitate automatic technical quality checking (bitstream integrity and validation) of each digital publications. Furthermore, the analysis is aimed at recognising technical restrictions such as DRM at an early stage, which hinder or even prevent the task of long-term preservation and use of the digital objects.
*** The extracted technical metadata (the FITS output) are used further for future long-term preservation measures such as format migration and are stored and managed in the metadata management of the long-term archive of the DNB. The capture of these metadata is essential in order to execute targeted migration measures of files in endangered formats.
*** FITS also offers significant benefit in the form of easily configurable standardisation of the different tool outputs into the FITS format using XSLT. The DNB has used this function to adapt the FITS output to its own requirements, e.g. incorporating other metadata elements not included in the FITS distribution into the standardisation.
*** A further adjustment, which the DNB has made, is the integration of a DNB tool to analyse files in ePub format.

* '''ZBW (German National Library of Economics):''' [https://wiki.dnb.de/display/NESTOR/ZBW+user+experience+with+FITS Link to the user experience of the ZBW]

= Development Activity =

FITS 0.2.0 was first released as open source in July 2009. As of April 2014 the latest release was version 0.8, released in January 2014. The tool was created to be used in Harvard's Digital Repository Service, and development is active and ongoing.

All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits

=== Release Feed ===
Below the last 3 release feeds:
<rss max=3>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/releases.atom</rss>

=== Activity Feed ===
Below the last 5 commits:
<rss max=5>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits/master.atom</rss>

{{Infobox_tool_details
|ohloh_id=fits
}}

FITS (File Information Tool Set)

2018-09-24T15:52:51Z

Rvveenendaal:

{{Infobox_tool
|purpose=FITS allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository.
|image=
|homepage=http://fitstool.org
|license=[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html GNU Lesser General Public License]
|platforms=Windows or Unix
}}


[[Category:File Format Identification]]
[[Category:Validation]]
[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]
[[Category:Encryption Detection]]

= Description =
The File Information Tool Set ([http://fitstool.org FITS]) identifies, validates and extracts technical metadata for a wide range of file formats. It acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file.

=== Provider ===
Harvard Library

=== Platform and interoperability ===
FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.7 or higher.
The tools used in version 1.3.0 of FITS are:
* [[ADL Tool]]
* [[Apache Tika]]
* [[DROID_(Digital_Record_Object_Identification)|DROID]]
* [[ExifTool]]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20061106114156/http://schmidt.devlib.org/ffident/index.html FFIdent] (no longer maintained)
* [[http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?file File Utility] (windows port)
* [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
* [[MediaInfo]]
* [[Metadata Extraction Tool] National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor]
* [[OIS Audio Information]]
* [[OIS File Information]]
* [[OIS XML Information]]

Instructions for command line use are given for Windows and Unix.

=== Functional notes ===
FITS acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file. Technical metadata is only output (and a part of the consolidation process) for tools that were able to identify the file. All other output is discarded.

=== Documentation and user support ===
Documentation exists in the form of a user manual and more technical developer manual.
The project actively uses the fits-users google group has 78 (Sept. 24, 2018) members, and is active as of January 2012.
The FITS web site links to a [https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits github site] that includes the source code and an issues tracker.

=== Usability ===
FITS uses a command line interface; it is designed to be integrated into other software workflows, and so is aimed at those with application design experience. In January 2016, version 1.0.0 of the FITS [https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/downloads#fits-servlet web service] was released, giving the ability to deploy FITS as a service.

=== Expertise required ===
Installation and configuration require deep systems administration and application design knowledge, as well as familiarity with file format and metadata standards.

=== Standards compliance ===
FITS outputs in XML format. A detailed description of the FITS-XML can be found [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/fits-xml here] and an analysis of the output data [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/understanding-output here].

=== Influence and take-up ===
The FITS website shows over 2000 downloads of the software.
The tool was designed for and is in use at the Harvard Library [http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/drs/ Digital Repository Service].

= User Experiences =

* '''National Archives of the Netherlands:'''
** How [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2017/05/17/preservation-impact-assessments-how-preservation-tools-support-naneths-connection-projects/ FITS] supports pre-ingest impact assessments at the National Archives of the Netherlands.
* '''DNB (German National Library):'''
** FITS v0.6.1 with modified [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| Jhove 1.11]], Gentoo Linux, Java-Environment, Tomcat-Application Server
** Since the end of 2012, DNB uses the FITS library as a part of its risk management within the automated ingest process. At present more than 1500 files are daily examined by FITS.
*** The purpose of the risk management and its implementation with metadata tools like FITS or JHOVE is to facilitate automatic technical quality checking (bitstream integrity and validation) of each digital publications. Furthermore, the analysis is aimed at recognising technical restrictions such as DRM at an early stage, which hinder or even prevent the task of long-term preservation and use of the digital objects.
*** The extracted technical metadata (the FITS output) are used further for future long-term preservation measures such as format migration and are stored and managed in the metadata management of the long-term archive of the DNB. The capture of these metadata is essential in order to execute targeted migration measures of files in endangered formats.
*** FITS also offers significant benefit in the form of easily configurable standardisation of the different tool outputs into the FITS format using XSLT. The DNB has used this function to adapt the FITS output to its own requirements, e.g. incorporating other metadata elements not included in the FITS distribution into the standardisation.
*** A further adjustment, which the DNB has made, is the integration of a DNB tool to analyse files in ePub format.

* '''ZBW (German National Library of Economics):''' [https://wiki.dnb.de/display/NESTOR/ZBW+user+experience+with+FITS Link to the user experience of the ZBW]

= Development Activity =

FITS 0.2.0 was first released as open source in July 2009. As of April 2014 the latest release was version 0.8, released in January 2014. The tool was created to be used in Harvard's Digital Repository Service, and development is active and ongoing.

All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits

=== Release Feed ===
Below the last 3 release feeds:
<rss max=3>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/releases.atom</rss>

=== Activity Feed ===
Below the last 5 commits:
<rss max=5>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits/master.atom</rss>

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FITS (File Information Tool Set)

2018-09-24T15:51:36Z

Rvveenendaal:

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|platforms=Windows or Unix
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[[Category:File Format Identification]]
[[Category:Validation]]
[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]
[[Category:Encryption Detection]]

= Description =
The File Information Tool Set ([http://fitstool.org FITS]) identifies, validates and extracts technical metadata for a wide range of file formats. It acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file.

=== Provider ===
Harvard Library

=== Platform and interoperability ===
FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.7 or higher.
The tools used in version 1.3.0 of FITS are:
* [[ADL Tool]]
* [[Apache Tika]]
* [[DROID_(Digital_Record_Object_Identification)|DROID]]
* [[Exiftool]]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20061106114156/http://schmidt.devlib.org/ffident/index.html FFIdent] (no longer maintained)
* [[http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?file File Utility] (windows port)
* [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
* [[MediaInfo]]
* [[Metadata Extraction Tool] National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor]
* [[OIS Audio Information]]
* [[OIS File Information]]
* [[OIS XML Information]]

Instructions for command line use are given for Windows and Unix.

=== Functional notes ===
FITS acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file. Technical metadata is only output (and a part of the consolidation process) for tools that were able to identify the file. All other output is discarded.

=== Documentation and user support ===
Documentation exists in the form of a user manual and more technical developer manual.
The project actively uses the fits-users google group has 78 (Sept. 24, 2018) members, and is active as of January 2012.
The FITS web site links to a [https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits github site] that includes the source code and an issues tracker.

=== Usability ===
FITS uses a command line interface; it is designed to be integrated into other software workflows, and so is aimed at those with application design experience. In January 2016, version 1.0.0 of the FITS [https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/downloads#fits-servlet web service] was released, giving the ability to deploy FITS as a service.

=== Expertise required ===
Installation and configuration require deep systems administration and application design knowledge, as well as familiarity with file format and metadata standards.

=== Standards compliance ===
FITS outputs in XML format. A detailed description of the FITS-XML can be found [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/fits-xml here] and an analysis of the output data [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/understanding-output here].

=== Influence and take-up ===
The FITS website shows over 2000 downloads of the software.
The tool was designed for and is in use at the Harvard Library [http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/drs/ Digital Repository Service].

= User Experiences =

* '''National Archives of the Netherlands:'''
** How [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2017/05/17/preservation-impact-assessments-how-preservation-tools-support-naneths-connection-projects/ FITS] supports pre-ingest impact assessments at the National Archives of the Netherlands.
* '''DNB (German National Library):'''
** FITS v0.6.1 with modified [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| Jhove 1.11]], Gentoo Linux, Java-Environment, Tomcat-Application Server
** Since the end of 2012, DNB uses the FITS library as a part of its risk management within the automated ingest process. At present more than 1500 files are daily examined by FITS.
*** The purpose of the risk management and its implementation with metadata tools like FITS or JHOVE is to facilitate automatic technical quality checking (bitstream integrity and validation) of each digital publications. Furthermore, the analysis is aimed at recognising technical restrictions such as DRM at an early stage, which hinder or even prevent the task of long-term preservation and use of the digital objects.
*** The extracted technical metadata (the FITS output) are used further for future long-term preservation measures such as format migration and are stored and managed in the metadata management of the long-term archive of the DNB. The capture of these metadata is essential in order to execute targeted migration measures of files in endangered formats.
*** FITS also offers significant benefit in the form of easily configurable standardisation of the different tool outputs into the FITS format using XSLT. The DNB has used this function to adapt the FITS output to its own requirements, e.g. incorporating other metadata elements not included in the FITS distribution into the standardisation.
*** A further adjustment, which the DNB has made, is the integration of a DNB tool to analyse files in ePub format.

* '''ZBW (German National Library of Economics):''' [https://wiki.dnb.de/display/NESTOR/ZBW+user+experience+with+FITS Link to the user experience of the ZBW]

= Development Activity =

FITS 0.2.0 was first released as open source in July 2009. As of April 2014 the latest release was version 0.8, released in January 2014. The tool was created to be used in Harvard's Digital Repository Service, and development is active and ongoing.

All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits

=== Release Feed ===
Below the last 3 release feeds:
<rss max=3>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/releases.atom</rss>

=== Activity Feed ===
Below the last 5 commits:
<rss max=5>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits/master.atom</rss>

{{Infobox_tool_details
|ohloh_id=fits
}}

FITS (File Information Tool Set)

2018-09-24T15:50:39Z

Rvveenendaal:

{{Infobox_tool
|purpose=FITS allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository.
|image=
|homepage=http://fitstool.org
|license=[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html GNU Lesser General Public License]
|platforms=Windows or Unix
}}


[[Category:File Format Identification]]
[[Category:Validation]]
[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]
[[Category:Encryption Detection]]

= Description =
The File Information Tool Set ([http://fitstool.org FITS]) identifies, validates and extracts technical metadata for a wide range of file formats. It acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file.

=== Provider ===
Harvard Library

=== Platform and interoperability ===
FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.7 or higher.
The tools used in version 1.3.0 of FITS are:
* [[ADL Tool]]
* [[Apache Tika]]
* [[DROID_(Digital_Record_Object_Identification)|DROID]]
* [[Exiftool]]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20061106114156/http://schmidt.devlib.org/ffident/index.html FFIdent] (no longer maintained)
* [[http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?file File Utility] (windows port)
* [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
* [MediaInfo]
* [[Metadata Extraction Tool] National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor]
* [OIS Audio Information]
* [OIS File Information]
* [OIS XML Information]

Instructions for command line use are given for Windows and Unix.

=== Functional notes ===
FITS acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file. Technical metadata is only output (and a part of the consolidation process) for tools that were able to identify the file. All other output is discarded.

=== Documentation and user support ===
Documentation exists in the form of a user manual and more technical developer manual.
The project actively uses the fits-users google group has 78 (Sept. 24, 2018) members, and is active as of January 2012.
The FITS web site links to a [https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits github site] that includes the source code and an issues tracker.

=== Usability ===
FITS uses a command line interface; it is designed to be integrated into other software workflows, and so is aimed at those with application design experience. In January 2016, version 1.0.0 of the FITS [https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/downloads#fits-servlet web service] was released, giving the ability to deploy FITS as a service.

=== Expertise required ===
Installation and configuration require deep systems administration and application design knowledge, as well as familiarity with file format and metadata standards.

=== Standards compliance ===
FITS outputs in XML format. A detailed description of the FITS-XML can be found [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/fits-xml here] and an analysis of the output data [http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/understanding-output here].

=== Influence and take-up ===
The FITS website shows over 2000 downloads of the software.
The tool was designed for and is in use at the Harvard Library [http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/drs/ Digital Repository Service].

= User Experiences =

* '''National Archives of the Netherlands:'''
** How [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2017/05/17/preservation-impact-assessments-how-preservation-tools-support-naneths-connection-projects/ FITS] supports pre-ingest impact assessments at the National Archives of the Netherlands.
* '''DNB (German National Library):'''
** FITS v0.6.1 with modified [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| Jhove 1.11]], Gentoo Linux, Java-Environment, Tomcat-Application Server
** Since the end of 2012, DNB uses the FITS library as a part of its risk management within the automated ingest process. At present more than 1500 files are daily examined by FITS.
*** The purpose of the risk management and its implementation with metadata tools like FITS or JHOVE is to facilitate automatic technical quality checking (bitstream integrity and validation) of each digital publications. Furthermore, the analysis is aimed at recognising technical restrictions such as DRM at an early stage, which hinder or even prevent the task of long-term preservation and use of the digital objects.
*** The extracted technical metadata (the FITS output) are used further for future long-term preservation measures such as format migration and are stored and managed in the metadata management of the long-term archive of the DNB. The capture of these metadata is essential in order to execute targeted migration measures of files in endangered formats.
*** FITS also offers significant benefit in the form of easily configurable standardisation of the different tool outputs into the FITS format using XSLT. The DNB has used this function to adapt the FITS output to its own requirements, e.g. incorporating other metadata elements not included in the FITS distribution into the standardisation.
*** A further adjustment, which the DNB has made, is the integration of a DNB tool to analyse files in ePub format.

* '''ZBW (German National Library of Economics):''' [https://wiki.dnb.de/display/NESTOR/ZBW+user+experience+with+FITS Link to the user experience of the ZBW]

= Development Activity =

FITS 0.2.0 was first released as open source in July 2009. As of April 2014 the latest release was version 0.8, released in January 2014. The tool was created to be used in Harvard's Digital Repository Service, and development is active and ongoing.

All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits

=== Release Feed ===
Below the last 3 release feeds:
<rss max=3>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/releases.atom</rss>

=== Activity Feed ===
Below the last 5 commits:
<rss max=5>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits/master.atom</rss>

{{Infobox_tool_details
|ohloh_id=fits
}}

C3PO

2018-09-24T14:31:13Z

Rvveenendaal:

{{Infobox_tool
|purpose=C3PO is a content profiling tool for visualization and preservation analysis
|homepage=http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/imp/c3po
|license=APACHE2
|platforms= Cross platform
}}


[[Category:Content Profiling]]
[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]

= Description =
C3PO (Clever, Crafty, Content Profiling of Objects) is a software tool, which uses meta data extracted from files of a digital collection as input to generate a profile of the content set. It is designed in a way so that different meta data formats originating from different tools can be easily integrated. Currently it supports FITS meta data and Apache TIKA metadata.

C3PO helps managers of digital collections get a better understanding of their collection by analyzing data and providing analysis and visualization of the content. C3PO has the ability to aggregate and combine metadata across collections, generate a profile of the content, and use FITS or Apache TIKA metadata. C3PO integrates easily with Plato for preservation planning purposes and with Scout for monitoring preservation risks.

The [https://github.com/peshkira/c3po SCAPE version 0.4.0 of C3PO] requires Java 1.6, MongoDB 2.0.5 or higher (64 bit), and optional use of FITS.

Version [https://github.com/datascience/c3po 0.6.0 of C3PO ] requires Java 1.8, MongoDB 3.2 or higher, sbt 1.0 or higher and optional use of FITS 0.6 or higher.

C3PO was developed by Petar Petrov as part of the SCAPE project. This tool is licensed on APACHE2 and runs on Java command line binaries as well as a Web interface.

===Documentation and user support===
[https://github.com/peshkira/c3po/wiki/Usage-Guide C3PO Usage Guide]
[https://github.com/datascience/c3po/wiki C3PO wiki]

= User Experiences =
* How [http://openpreservation.org/blog/2017/05/17/preservation-impact-assessments-how-preservation-tools-support-naneths-connection-projects/ C3PO supports pre-ingest impact assessment] at the National Archives of the Netherlands
* Open Planets Foundation [http://www-dev.openplanetsfoundation.org/aggregator/sources/3?page=6 SPRUCE Hackathon Leeds: extending C3PO to support Apache Tika]
* My Voyage Through Time [https://myvoyagethroughtime.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/c3po-and-digital-curation/ C3PO and Digital Curation]
* Slide Share [http://www.slideshare.net/SCAPEproject/content-profiling-and-c3po Content Profiling and C3PO]

= Development Activity =
=== Release Feed===
<rss max=7>https://github.com/peshkira/c3po/commits/master.atom</rss>

{{Infobox_tool_details
|ohloh_id=
}}