File Information Tool Set (FITS)

With the increase in web archiving and other born-digital projects that introduce new formats and genres to our digital preservation repositories, it is becoming more important that our tools support a wide range of file formats. In particular, our file format identification, validation and metadata extraction tools should work with a broad range of formats and genres. There are a number of these file tools in existence, but none of these tools individually can both support a wide range of formats and extract the technical metadata necessary to fully characterize digital content.