[gnuastro-commits] master 5f6b396 2/2: Vatican Library's usage of FITS added in intro of Fits

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

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commit 5f6b396b7b55aeb80b0b69ceb54bb48f5430c9ed
Author: Mohammad Akhlaghi <address@hidden>
Commit: Mohammad Akhlaghi <address@hidden>

    Vatican Library's usage of FITS added in intro of Fits
    
    Recently I learnt that due to the robustness and archivability features of
    FITS, the Vatican Library (one of the oldest existing archival features in
    the western world) is using the FITS format for its long term archives. So
    to help encourage readers to use this format and get more familiar with it,
    this point is added in the introduction to the Fits program.
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@@ -7956,14 +7956,20 @@ save them into another plain text or FITS table.
 @section Fits
 
 The ``Flexible Image Transport System'', or FITS, is by far the most common
-data container format in astronomy. Although the full name of the standard
-invokes the idea that it is only for images, it also contains very complete
-and robust features for tables. It started off in the 1970s and was
-formally published as a standard in 1981, it was adopted by the
-International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1982 and an IAU working group to
-maintain its future was defined in 1988. The FITS 2.0 and 3.0 standards
-were approved in 2000 and 2008 respectively, and the 4.0 draft has also
-been released recently, please see the
+data container format in astronomy and in constant use since the
+1970s. Archivability (future usage, simplicity) has been one of the primary
+design principles of this format. In the last few decades it has proved so
+useful and robust that the Vatican Library has also chosen FITS for its
+``long-term digital preservation''
address@hidden@url{https://www.vaticanlibrary.va/home.php?pag=progettodigit}}.
+
+Although the full name of the standard invokes the idea that it is only for
+images, it also contains very complete and robust features for tables. It
+started off in the 1970s and was formally published as a standard in 1981,
+it was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1982 and an
+IAU working group to maintain its future was defined in 1988. The FITS 2.0
+and 3.0 standards were approved in 2000 and 2008 respectively, and the 4.0
+draft has also been released recently, please see the
 @url{https://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_standard.html, FITS standard document
 webpage} for the full text of all versions. Also see the
 @url{https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015362, FITS 3.0 standard paper}