FITS — a new tool set from HUL

Posted on August 10, 2009 | Comments Off on FITS — a new tool set from HUL

An early version of FITS, a new tool set for identifying, validating, and extracting technical metadata for various file formats, is now available on Googlecode. It wraps several third-party open source tools, normalizes and consolidates their output, and reports any errors.

I’m not directly involved in FITS at the moment, but I’m involved in various ways around its edges.

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Catching up

Posted on August 9, 2009 | Comments Off on Catching up

Here are a few of the news items I mentioned recently on the old blog, for your convenience:

  • A workshop on JHOVE2 will be held after the conclusion of iPres 2009 in San Francisco, on October 7, 2009. This will include, for the first time, a presentation of the prototype code.
  • JPEG XR, formerly known as Microsoft HD Photo, is now an international standard, as reported in a JPEG press release.
  • JHOVE 1.4 is now available on SourceForge. The main change is that PDF/A compliance is more accurately identified than before, and is based on the final standard rather than a draft.

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