On Jul 19, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Stern, Randall wrote:

> Also, see FITS (http://code.google.com/p/fits/)
> 
> FITS is an open source java toolset we wrote that wraps JHOVE, ExifTool,
> and several other format analysis tools and produces a single XML output
> stream. It also includes a crosswalk to MIX XML as an optional output.


Really?  You named a tool that deals with image data 'FITS' ?

You do realize there's actually a 30+ year old image standard called FITS:

	http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/

(which has its own metadata standard, just to make things even more 
interesting)

-Joe