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We are pleased to announce a new release of both FITS and FITS Service web application.

The FITS release contains update to the following tools contained within FITS: DROID 6.4, Tika 1.19.1, and Exiftool 11.14. There have been updates to XSL transformations corresponding to these tools' output into FITS metadata to accommodate some (but not all) of the additional metadata provided by these tools. MP3 files are now excluded from processing by JHOVE by default. This can be modified in the fits.xml configuration file. There have also been other minor tweaks and bug fixes.

The FITS Service project -- a Java web application -- contains a few bug fixes and a new, optional request parameter to turn off returning standard metadata schema output contained within the FITS metadata element. See the FITS Service project on GitHub for more details. The significant change in this project is that it is now built using Maven rather than Ant. However, this should have no bearing on end users.

Change Summary

  • Added mp3 to Jhove file exclusion list in fits.xml; Add unit tests for mp3 files.
  • DROID updated to version 6.4; updated signature file to V94.
    • There have been two minor modifications to this signature file. See the README.txt file within the same tools/droid folder where the signature file is located.
  • Tika updated to version 1.19.1.
    • There are now Tika outputs warnings -- which have been turned off via a new Tika configuration file -- about not processing JPEG2000 files. This is due to a missing (intentionally omitted) dependency that is not compatible with the Apache 2.0 license (for both Tika and FITS). This can be added independently. See: JAI Image I/O
    • This new Tika configuration file, tika-config.xml, has been added to the directory xml/tika/. See Apache Tika Configuration to turn these warning messages back on.
  • Exiftool updated to version 11.14.
    • This version tends to identify PDF/A documents as only PDF whereas earlier versions identified as PDF/A. However, other tools properly identify PDF/A documents. As a result, in rare cases metadata identified only by Exiftool is dropped due its less specific file identification.
  • Other bug fixes.
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