FITS output tests

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Purpose
The following files of known formats were run through FITS. The FITS configuration file (fits.xml) was edited so that FITS would append the native output report for each tool included in FITS to the end of the FITS report.

The goals of the testing are:
 * Identify how the various tools should be prioritized in fits.xml
 * Identify any output value substitutions that should be included in the FITS mapping file (fits_xml_map.xml)
 * Identify any formats that should be excluded from certain FITS tools (exclude-exts attribute in the tag in fits.xml)

Description Format:
 * File Type (extension; mime type)
 * Version -  Link to tested file  -  Link to FITS report

FITS priorities (fits.xml) in these results:
 * Tools are only reported when they have a result. For instance, if JHOVE does not identify a format, then file utility becomes the first priority. (See FITS user guide documentation)
 * 1) JHOVE
 * 2) file utility
 * 3) Exiftool
 * 4) DROID
 * 5) NLNZ Metadata Extractor
 * 6) FileInfo
 * 7) xml metadata
 * 8) FFIdent

Microsoft Office Formats
MS Excel spreadsheet (.xls; application/vnd.ms-excel) MS Powerpoint presentation (.ppt; application/vnd.ms-powerpoint) MS Visio diagram (.vsd; ) MS Word wordprocessing document (.doc; application/msword)
 * Excel 2002 -   Test file  -   FITS output
 * Powerpoint (v?) -   Test file  -   FITS output
 * Visio 2003 -   Test file  -   FITS output
 * Word 2002 -   Test file  -   FITS output

Open Office Formats
OO Calc OO Draw OO Impress OO Write
 * OO Calc 3.1.1 -   Test file  -   FITS output
 * OO Draw 3.1.0 -   Test file  -   FITS output
 * OO Impress 3.1.1 -   Test file  -   FITS output
 * OO Write 3.1.1 -   Test file  -   FITS output

Raster Image Formats
Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg; image/jpeg) JPEG 2000 (.jp2) Tagged Image File Format (.tif, .tiff; image/tiff) Device Independent Bitmap (.bmp) Graphics Interchange Format (.gif; image/gif) Portable Network Graphics (.png)
 * JPEG image -   Test file  -   FITS output
 * JPEG 2000 image
 * TIFF image   Test file  -   FITS output
 * GIF image -     Test file  -   FITS output

Vector Graphics Formats
Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg, .svgz; image/svg+xml)

Multi-media Formats
Audio Interchange File Format (.aif; audio/x-aiff)

MPEG-1

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (.mp3; audio/mpeg)

MPEG-2

MPEG-4

OGG Theora

OGG Vorbis (.ogg, .oga; audio/ogg, audio/vorbis, audio/vorbis-config)

Waveform Audio Format (.wav; audio/x-wav)
 * WAVE -   Test file  -   FITS output

Windows Media Audio(.wma; audio/x-ms-wma)

Windows Media Video (.wmv; video/x-ms-wmv)

Quicktime (.mov)

Text
Hypertext Markup Language (.htm, .html; text/html)

Plain Text (.txt; text/plain)

Rich Text Format (.rtf; text/rtf)

Email Formats
(.msg)

Portable Document Format
PDF (.pdf; application/pdf)

File Archive Formats
ZIP (.zip; application/zip)

Unix/Linux Tape Archive (.tar; application/x-tar)