Remove references to FITS

admin-manual/installation-setup/customization/scaling-archivematica.rst

@@ -393,13 +393,6 @@ Some of the default preservation action rules can take considerable processing
 time and resources. We have found the following rules useful to change in some
 cases.
 
-**Turn off default characterization rule:** `FITS`_ is used to characterise files
-that don't have a recognised file format. Executing this rule takes processing
-time and adds raw output to the METS file that can be low value for some
-formats. For example, in scientific datasets with large numbers of generic text
-files, or binary files created by instruments in scientific experiments, the
-output can be verbose without being useful.
-
 **Reduce number of image characterization rules:** Archivematica has rules
 defined for all image and audio-visual formats to use ExifTool, Mediainfo and
 ffprobe for characterisation. Using multiple tools ensures as much
@@ -432,5 +425,4 @@ to create (and check) than the alternatives (e.g. SHA-256).
 .. _Archivematica user forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/archivematica
 .. _Dashboard: https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/tree/6ead2083f7bdd8b10ca76d41a7bff9c5aee23eb3/src/dashboard/install
 .. _benchmarking: https://www.itforarchivists.com/siegfried/benchmarks
-.. _FITS: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/home
 .. _Database is locked: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/databases/#database-is-locked-errors

admin-manual/installation-setup/installation/installation.rst

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ information, see :ref:`Advanced <advanced>`.
    the Percona and MariaDB alternatives.
 
    Some of the tools run by Archivematica require Java to be
-   installed (primarily Elasticsearch and fits). On Ubuntu 22.04, Open JDK 8
+   installed (primarily Elasticsearch). On Ubuntu 22.04, Open JDK 8
    is used, but Open JDK 11 is the default. It is possible to use Oracle Java 8
    instead.
 

admin-manual/installation-setup/installation/scripts/am-jammy-deb.sh

@@ -50,8 +50,6 @@ sudo service archivematica-mcp-client restart
 sudo service archivematica-storage-service start
 sudo service archivematica-dashboard restart
 sudo service nginx restart
-sudo systemctl enable fits-nailgun
-sudo service fits-nailgun start
 
 sudo ufw allow 22/tcp
 sudo ufw allow 80/tcp

admin-manual/installation-setup/installation/scripts/am-rocky-rpm.sh

@@ -100,8 +100,6 @@ sudo -u root sed -i 's/^Example//g' /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf
 
 sudo -u root systemctl enable archivematica-mcp-client
 sudo -u root systemctl start archivematica-mcp-client
-sudo -u root systemctl enable fits-nailgun
-sudo -u root systemctl start fits-nailgun
 sudo -u root systemctl enable clamd@scan
 sudo -u root systemctl start clamd@scan
 sudo -u root systemctl restart archivematica-dashboard

admin-manual/maintenance/maintenance.rst

@@ -502,7 +502,6 @@ Other services that Archivematica depends on are:
   * ElasticSearch
   * Gearman
   * MySQL (Ubuntu) or MariaDB (Rocky Linux)
-  * Nailgun
   * Nginx
 
 Each service can be started/stopped/restarted with:

getting-started/overview/external-tools.rst

@@ -66,12 +66,6 @@ to identify the file formats of digital objects.
 
 **License**: `Apache License Version 2.0`_
 
-`File Information Tool Set (FITS)`_
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-File format identification and validation software integration tool.
-
-**License**: `GNU Lesser General Public License`_
-
 `Gearman`_
 ^^^^^^^^^^
 Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other
@@ -120,12 +114,6 @@ data for video and audio files.
 
 **License**: `BSD (2-clause)`_
 
-`Nailgun`_
-^^^^^^^^^^
-A client, protocol, and server for running Java programs from the command line.
-
-**License**: `Apache License Version 2.0`_
-
 `NFS-common`_
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Network File System Access - allows access to files on network storage devices.
@@ -203,7 +191,6 @@ The Unarchiver is an archive unpacker program.
 .. _ExifTool: https://exiftool.org/index.html
 .. _FFmpeg: http://ffmpeg.org/
 .. _fido: https://github.com/openpreserve/fido/
-.. _File Information Tool Set (FITS): https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits
 .. _Gearman: http://gearman.org/
 .. _Ghostscript: https://www.ghostscript.com/
 .. _GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL): https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
@@ -219,7 +206,6 @@ The Unarchiver is an archive unpacker program.
 .. _JHOVE: https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove
 .. _MediaConch: https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch
 .. _MediaInfo: https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
-.. _Nailgun: https://github.com/facebook/nailgun
 .. _NFS-common: https://linux-nfs.org
 .. _p7zip: http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/
 .. _Python-lxml: https://lxml.de/

getting-started/troubleshooting/error-handling.rst

@@ -178,9 +178,9 @@ The user may choose to continue processing the SIP despite any normalization
 errors.
 
 The user may choose to redo normalization, as well. For instance, if
-the user chose to normalize based on FITS-JHOVE results and experienced
+the user chose to normalize based on one tool's results and experienced
 failures, the user may wish to redo normalization and choose to normalize
-based on FITS-DROID results instead.
+based on another tool's results instead.
 
 .. figure:: images/Normdropdown-10.*
    :align: center
@@ -269,10 +269,9 @@ Other common error behaviours
 Below is a list of common errors that, like normalization, will produce an
 error report but will not fail the transfer.
 
-#. Characterize and extract metadata: if FITS processing fails, the
+#. Characterize and extract metadata: if the characterization tool fails, the
    micro-service will fail and the transfer will continue processing.
-   Similarly, if a tool within FITS fails, like JHOVE, you will see the pink
-   error bar but be able to continue processing.
+   You will see the pink error bar but be able to continue processing.
 
 #. Remove thumbs.db file: if Archivematica is unable to remove a thumbs.db
    file, the microservice will fail and the SIP will continue processing.

user-manual/preservation/preservation-planning.rst

@@ -178,10 +178,9 @@ Tools
 ^^^^^
 
 Archivematica acts as a wrapper for many open source tools used to carry out
-preservation actions. These include digital preservation specific tools like
-`FITS`_, used for extracting technical metadata from files, as well as tools for
-handling different file formats like `Inkscape`_, which is a design program used
-to handle vector images.
+preservation actions. These include digital preservation specific tools (such as
+those to carry out file format identification and characterization) as well as
+generalist tools used for actions such as normalization.
 
 The full list of tools can be accessed in the left-hand sidebar by selecting
 **Tools** under the *Format policy registry* heading.
@@ -503,13 +502,11 @@ Archivematica has four characterization tools available upon installation. Which
 tool will run on a given file depends on the type of file, as determined by
 the identification tool.
 
-The default characterization tool is FITS; it will be used if no specific
-characterization rule exists for the file being scanned. It is possible to
-create new default characterization commands, which can either replace FITS or
-run alongside it on every file.
+It is possible to create new default characterization commands, which can run
+on every file.
 
 Depending on the type of the file being scanned, one or more of these tools may
-be called instead of FITS.
+be called.
 
 * `FFprobe <FFprobe_>`_, a characterization tool built on top of the same core as
   FFmpeg, the normalization software used by Archivematica.
@@ -539,9 +536,8 @@ For more information about writing a command, see :ref:`Writing commands
 Characterization rules
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-A characterization rule must be created to connect a characterizatio command to
-a particular format. Note that formats that do not have a rule will be
-characterized by FITS by default.
+A characterization rule must be created to connect a characterization command to
+a particular format.
 
 For more information about creating a rule, see :ref:`Changing rules
 <changing-rules>` above.
@@ -1087,7 +1083,6 @@ You do not need to create rules for verification.
 .. _Ghostscript: https://www.ghostscript.com/
 .. _ps2pdf: https://www.ps2pdf.com/
 .. _Archivematica issues repo: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues
-.. _FITS: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/home
 .. _JHOVE: https://openpreservation.org/products/jhove/
 .. _MediaConch documentation: https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/Documentation/HowToUse
 .. _MediaConchOnline: https://mediaarea.net/MediaConchOnline/

user-manual/transfer/forensic.rst

@@ -45,11 +45,8 @@ in the processing configuration by setting the *Extract packages* job to "No".
 
 If you would like to extract forensic image formats anyway, you can set the
 *Extract packages* job to "Yes". We recommend testing this at scale to ensure
-that it is a viable workflow for your deployment. One scalability option that
-can help to mitigate the processing load caused by extraction is turning off
-`FITS`_, which is the default characterization tool that will run on every
-extracted file. For more information, see :ref:`Preservation Action Rules
-<disable-fpr-rules>` on the Scalability page.
+that it is a viable workflow for your deployment. For more information, see
+:ref:`Preservation Action Rules <disable-fpr-rules>` on the Scalability page.
 
 Delete packages after extraction
 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
@@ -160,5 +157,4 @@ desired, by using the backlog arrangement functionality in Archivematica.
 
 
 .. _Bulk Extractor: https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/wiki
-.. _FITS: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/home
 .. _fiwalk: https://forensicswiki.xyz/wiki/index.php?title=Fiwalk