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|purpose=FITS allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository.
 
|purpose=FITS allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository.
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|homepage=http://fitstool.org
 
|homepage=http://fitstool.org
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|license=[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html GNU Lesser General Public License]
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|license=GNU Lesser General Public License
 
|platforms=Windows or Unix
 
|platforms=Windows or Unix
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|function=File Format Identification, Validation, Metadata Extraction, Encryption Detection
 
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{{Infobox tool details
 
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|ohloh_id=fits
 
 
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[[Category:File Format Identification]]
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[[Category:Validation]]
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[[Category:Metadata Extraction]]
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[[Category:Encryption Detection]]
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= Description =
 
= Description =
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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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[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.
 
   
 
   
 
=== Provider ===
 
=== Provider ===
 
Harvard Library
 
Harvard Library
  
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=== Licensing and cost ===
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[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GNU Lesser GPL] &ndash; free.
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=== Platform and interoperability ===
 
=== Platform and interoperability ===
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FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.7 or higher.  
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FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.6 or higher.  
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The tools used in version 1.3.0 of FITS are:  
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It uses six external tools:  
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* [[ADL Tool]]
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* [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
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* [[Apache Tika]]
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* [[ExifTool]]
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* [[Metadata Extraction Tool]]
 
* [[DROID_(Digital_Record_Object_Identification)|DROID]]
 
* [[DROID_(Digital_Record_Object_Identification)|DROID]]
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* [[ExifTool]]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20061106114156/http://schmidt.devlib.org/ffident/index.html FFIdent]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20061106114156/http://schmidt.devlib.org/ffident/index.html FFIdent] (no longer maintained)
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* [http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?file File Utility]
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* [[http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?file File Utility] (windows port)
 
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* [[JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment)| JHOVE]]
 
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* [[MediaInfo]]
 
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* [[Metadata_Extraction_Tool]]
 
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* [[OIS Audio Information]]
 
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* [[OIS File Information]]
 
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* [[OIS XML Information]]
 
  
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A few Harvard Library-created tools; and many open source libraries.
 
Instructions for command line use are given for Windows and Unix.
 
Instructions for command line use are given for Windows and Unix.
 
   
 
   
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=== Documentation and user support ===
 
=== Documentation and user support ===
 
Documentation exists in the form of a user manual and more technical developer manual.  
 
Documentation exists in the form of a user manual and more technical developer manual.  
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The project actively uses the fits-users google group has 78 (Sept. 24, 2018) members, and is active as of January 2012.  
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The project actively uses the fits-users google group has 30 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.
 
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 ===
 
=== Usability ===
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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.
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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.
 
   
 
   
 
=== Expertise required ===
 
=== Expertise required ===
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=== Standards compliance ===
 
=== Standards compliance ===
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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].
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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 here[http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/understanding-output here].
  
 
=== Influence and take-up ===
 
=== Influence and take-up ===
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= User Experiences =
 
= User Experiences =
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* '''National Archives of the Netherlands:'''
 
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** 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.
 
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* '''DNB (German National Library):'''
 
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** 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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** 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.
 
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*** 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.
 
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*** 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.
 
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*** 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.
 
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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.
 
  
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* '''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 =
 
= Development Activity =
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All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits
 
All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits
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=== Release Feed ===
 
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Below the last 3 release feeds:
 
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<rss max=3>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/releases.atom</rss>
 
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
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Below the last 5 commits:
 
Below the last 5 commits:
 
<rss max=5>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits/master.atom</rss>
 
<rss max=5>https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/commits/master.atom</rss>
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