[fitsbits] Automated FITS correction tools?

[William Pence]

Rob,

First, I would hope that fitsverify 
(http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_verify.html) is able to identify all the 
problems in the non-conformant FITS files that you have encountered. 
I'd like to know about any FITS format errors that fitsverify doesn't 
detect.

It would be interesting to see a comprehensive list of all the 
conformance errors or warnings that you've found. It should be possible 
to write a tool to automatically correct some of the problems, but some 
types of errors would probably require expert knowledge about the 
contents of the file to correct.

Bill

On 12/03/2010 01:38 PM, Rob Seaman wrote:
> Let's say one has some* real world FITS files.  One may define "real world FITS" as files that are non-conformant in diverse ways with the FITS standard.
>
> What tools exist to "correct" the files to bring them into conformance?
>
> What strategies do people, projects and institutions use to enforce basic** quality assurance ex post facto?
>
> Rob
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> * about 2 x 10^7 FITS HDUs of ~100 "flavors" produced by ~20 institutional entities reaching back 17 years
>
> ** meaning fundamental representational issues, as opposed to vetting against specific project requirements - requirements that assume those fundamentals are "somebody else's problem"
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