On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Rahul Khanna wrote:
I'm a developer who has used Apache Tika in a Research Data Repository System at The Australian National University. As part of the requirements of the project we extended the functionality of Apache Tika by creating a parser that extracts the headers of files in the FITS format (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/Format/proFormatSearch.aspx?s tatus=detailReport&id=657) using the nom.tam.fits library available at http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/fits/java/v1.0/ .
Four questions spring to mind: * How stable is the nom.tam.fits library? Lots of changes at the moment, or few? * Is the library already in maven central? * How complicated is the parser? Is a fairly simple one (basically call the library, then process the output into Tika structures/formats) or does it do a large amount of work? * Are there unit tests? Nick