JSTOR and the Harvard University Library are pleased to announce that
the initial production release of JHOVE (the JSTOR/Harvard Object
Validation Environment, pronounced "jove") is now available at
<http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/>.
JHOVE is an extensible framework for format-specific object
identification, validation, and characterization. Format identification
answers the question, "I have an object; what format is it?" Validation
answers the question, "I have a format purportedly of format F; is it?"
Characterization answers the question, "I have an object of format F;
what are its salient properties?"
This version, Rel. 1.0 (2005-05-026), includes modules that support the
following formats:
o AIFF, AIFF-C
o ASCII
o GIF 87a, 89a
o HTML 3.2, 4.0, 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and 1.1
o JPEG, JFIF, Exif 2.0 and 2.1, SPIFF, JTIP, JPEG-LS
o JPEG 2000 JP2, JPX
o PDF 1.0-1.6, PDF/X-1, -1a, -2, -3, Tagged PDF, Linearized PDF,
PDF/A-1
o TIFF 4.0-6.0, Class B, G, P, R, Y, F, TIFF/IT, TIFF/EP, Exif 2.0 and
2.1, GeoTIFF, TIFF-FX, RFC 1314, DNG
o UTF-8
o WAVE, BWF
o XML 1.0
Still image metadata is reported in the form of NISO Z38.97/MIX schema;
audio metadata is reported in the form of AES-X098B schema.
Detailed release notes, documentation, and tutorial information are
available on the JHOVE web site <http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/>.
A "JHOVE-users" listserv has been established to provide a forum for
general discussion and announcements and is intended to increase the
adoption and usefulness of JHOVE in the digital library, archives,
repository, and preservation communities. To subscribe, email
<[log in to unmask]> with the command:
subscribe jhove-users
in the message body.
JHOVE is made available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL).
JHOVE is a joint project of JSTOR and the Harvard University Library.
Development of JHOVE was funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation through a grant to JSTOR for its Electronic-Archiving
Initiative.
Please direct all comments to <[log in to unmask]>.
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Stephen L. Abrams
Digital Library Program Manager
Harvard University Library, Office for Information Systems
1280 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 404
Cambridge, MA 02138
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