Fits - Project Hosting on Google Code. What is it? 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 code is now stored in Github: The current tools used are: The source code for each of the above tools is available on their websites. FITS also supplies two original tools: FileInfo and XmlMetadata. In addition, FITS includes the following open source libraries: The source code for each of the above libraries is available on their websites.
To get started see the FITS User Guide. Changes: Note that starting with release 0.3.0 Java 1.6 is required. Version 0.6.2 (3/18/13) -Initial merge and commit from openfits -Updated Exiftool to 9.06 -Improved video support with Exiftool Version 0.2.6. DPE: Digital Preservation Europe. Research Briefs | Digital preservation: The uncertain future of. Digital objects are becoming a critical component of scholarly research, but stakeholders show an alarming lack of concern about preserving digital data accurately and sustainably: those charged with archiving information have not yet developed strategies that will enable future generations to build their knowledge on what has gone before.
How will research findings be communicated in the future, and how true to the original look, feel and behaviour of these publications will digital archives need to be? Scenario planning can address the challenge of developing strategies in the face of these uncertainties to help librarians and archivists maintain the time-honoured tradition of preserving the past to inform the future. This report is part of the RAND Corporation research brief series. RAND research briefs present policy-oriented summaries of individual published, peer-reviewed documents or of a body of published work.
AIDA: A JISC project » Toolkit. The AIDA self Assessment Toolkit is a toolkit to enable your institution to perform self-assessment of your capacity, state of readiness, and overall capability for digital asset management. New! Mark II version of the Toolkit released May 2009 Previous version (July 2008) This is not intended to function as an audit. Although the toolkit will be weighted and scored, there’s no such thing as a ‘bad score’. The toolkit is structured as a set of simple elements, each one describing an aspect of digital asset management.
The process is spread over three discrete areas. These Five Stages (Acknowledge, Act, Consolidate, Institutionalise and Externalise). and the Three Legs are based on the Cornell University maturity model, originally designed to assess an Institution’s readiness for digital preservation. Along with the typical characteristics, we provide indicators of practice.
The scores are evaluated with the AIDA balanced scorecard. Digital Preservation and Nuclear Disaster: An Animation. AIDA: A JISC project.