... Up: FITS-Flexible Image Transport System . ... We have therefore constructed a relational database schema which describes FITS keywords, and have implemented it using Sybase. ... This generalization led swiftly to the use of the ``Memes'' database to document itself, since the fields (columns) of a database table are memes with a large subset of the attributes of a FITS keyword (such as name, datatype, semantics, etc.) ... There are many practical applications for these abilities (see Table 1). ...