FITS (File Information Tool Set) - Revision history

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Chlara: Development Activity: Release Feed

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Development Activity: Release Feed

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-{{Infobox_tool
+{{Infobox tool
 |purpose=FITS allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository.
 |homepage=http://fitstool.org
 |license=[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html GNU Lesser General Public License]
 |platforms=Windows or Unix
 }}
 = 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.
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 Below the last 5 commits:
 <rss max=5>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits/master.atom</rss>

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 * [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
 * [[MediaInfo]]
-* [[Metadata_Extraction_Tool]
+* [[Metadata_Extraction_Tool]]
 * [[OIS Audio Information]]
 * [[OIS File Information]]

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 * [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
 * [[MediaInfo]]
-* [[Metadata_Extraction_Tool| National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor]
+* [[Metadata_Extraction_Tool]
 * [[OIS Audio Information]]
 * [[OIS File Information]]

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 * [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
 * [[MediaInfo]]
-* [Metadata_Extraction_Tool National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor]
+* [[Metadata_Extraction_Tool| National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor]
 * [[OIS Audio Information]]
 * [[OIS File Information]]

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 * [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
 * [[MediaInfo]]
-* [[Metadata_Extraction_Tool] National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor]
+* [Metadata_Extraction_Tool National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor]
 * [[OIS Audio Information]]
 * [[OIS File Information]]

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 * [[Apache Tika]]
 * [[DROID_(Digital_Record_Object_Identification)|DROID]]
-* [[Exiftool]]
+* [[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)

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 * [[http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?file File Utility] (windows port)
 * [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
-* [MediaInfo]
+* [[MediaInfo]]
 * [[Metadata Extraction Tool] National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor]
-* [OIS Audio Information]
+* [[OIS Audio Information]]
-* [OIS File Information]
+* [[OIS File Information]]
-* [OIS XML Information]
+* [[OIS XML Information]]
 Instructions for command line use are given for Windows and Unix.

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 = Description =
-[http://fitstool.org FITS] allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository. It does this by encorporating a range of mostly third-party open source tools, normalising and consolidating their output.
+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 ===
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 === Platform and interoperability ===
-FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.6 or higher.
+FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.7 or higher.
-It uses six external tools:
+The tools used in version 1.3.0 of FITS are:
 * [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
-* [[ExifTool]]
+* [MediaInfo]
-* [[Metadata Extraction Tool]]
+* [[Metadata Extraction Tool] National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor]
-* [[DROID_(Digital_Record_Object_Identification)|DROID]]
+* [OIS Audio Information]
-* [http://web.archive.org/web/20061106114156/http://schmidt.devlib.org/ffident/index.html FFIdent]
+* [OIS File Information]
-* [http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?file File Utility]
+* [OIS XML Information]
 Instructions for command line use are given for Windows and Unix.
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 === 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 30 members, and is active as of January 2012.
+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.
+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 ===
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 = User Experiences =
 <!-- Add hotlinks to user experiences with the tool (eg. blog posts). These should illustrate the effectiveness (or otherwise) of the tool. Use a bullet list. -->
 * '''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

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 *** 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):'''
+* '''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 =
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 All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits