Re: [dcc-associates] expressing certainty in PREMIS

[Christine Borgman]

thanks, Norman - the astronomy FITS was my assumption also, but it  
didn't fit with the context, so I also looked it up.

If there's time to change the name/acronym, the new "fits" will have  
much better takeup and less confusion.

best,
Christine

On Jul 14, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Norman Gray wrote:


Greetings.

(slightly off topic)

On 2010 Jul 12, at 10:44, Swithun Crowe wrote:

I plan to use FITS (http://code.google.com/p/fits/)

It's rather unfortunate that this library is called FITS, since that  
makes it easy to confuse it with FITS.

FITS, as an archive-quality digital preservation standard, has been  
around for more than 30 years now, and is well known and broadly  
supported.  I wonder just how many petabytes of FITS format data  
there are in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_libraries.html

And if you do a google search for 'fits', four of the ten hits refer  
to the FITS standard.

Best wishes,

Norman


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