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On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote: > 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) This appears to the a known issue in their tracker: http://code.google.com/p/fits/issues/detail?id=10. Medium priority. Also it's worth comparing the FITS' output to the output of "exiftool -X". IIRC FITS uses a low level of verbosity with their FITS integration, though this may not be noticeable with some formats. Dave Rice avpreserve.com