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The File Information Tool Set (FITS) identifies, validates, and extracts technical metadata for various file formats. It wraps several third-party open source tools, normalizes and consolidates their output, and reports any errors. FITS was created by the Harvard University Library
Office for Information Systems for use in its
Digital Repository Service (DRS) (
source)
Installation
- Download FITS from http://code.google.com/p/fits
- Follow the installation instructions here.
- Edit line 5 in fits.sh (FITS_HOME='') and give it a home in the Apache user's path.
Configuration
Navigate to Administer > Site Configuration > Islandora Configuration (admin/settings/fedora_repository) and expand the "Advanced configuration options" tab. Here you can enable FITS support, specify the location of the fits script (on the file system) and the dsid you want to use for the technical metadata datastream.
The System path to fits processor must include "fits.sh", so it would look like: "/usr/share/fits-0.6.1/fits.sh" instead of "/usr/share/fits-0.6.1/".