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You'll want to be sure to test FITS thoroughly for your use case. It really needs some love. It's using some outdated tools and has a number of bugs. I submitted a bunch of PRs to the project this summer, but maintaining FITS is currently not a priority at Harvard, though I was assured that its not abandoned.

As a digital preservation aside, folks may be interested in OCFL[1], which is a preservation focused storage layout specification that had its 1.0 release last year.

[1] https://ocfl.io/



Ouch, thanks for the heads up. :/ We'll be stuck with FITS this time around, though.

Also, someone should put OCFL on the front page, while HN is in an archiving mood.




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