Developer Manual

The FITS Developer Manual expands on the User Manual with information to support API integration, system integration, and diagrams.

The File Information Tool Set (FITS) identifies, validates and extracts technical metadata for a wide range of file formats. It acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file. FITS is written in Java and is compatible with Java 1.8 or higher. The external tools currently used are:

Apache Tika Jhove MediaInfo Exiftool National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor DROID FFIdent File Utility (windows)