*** Cross posted ***

 

The JHOVE2 project team has released the 2.0.0 version of the open
source software on the project's Mercurial source code repository at
BitBucket, <http://bitbucket.org/jhove2/main>.

 

This release supports all the major technical objectives of the project,
including a more sophisticated, modular architecture; signature-based
file identification; policy-based assessment of objects; recursive
characterization of objects comprising aggregate files and files
arbitrarily nested in containers; and extensive configuration and
reporting options.  It provides a stabile interface against which
developers can code new format modules.

 

Format modules included in this release are:

 

*         ICC color profiles

*         SGML

*         Shapefile

*         TIFF

*         UTF-8

*         WAVE

*         XML

*         Zip

 

Please note that the ZIP module comprises a non-validating partial
module, which accomplishes recursive JHOVE2 descent on the contents of
the ZIP file, but does not yet validate the ZIP file itself against the
standard.

 

Modules to be delivered in future releases include

 

*         ARC  (developed by BnF/Atos)

*         Gzip (developed by BnF/Atos)

*         NetCDF (provided by Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine
Research) PDF

*         JPEG-2000

*         PDF

 

More information on JHOVE2 can be found at the project wiki,
<http://bitbucket.org/jhove2/main>, or via email on the
"JHOVE2-Announce-L" email list.  Please direct any comments or
suggestions to the "JHOVE2-TechTalk-L" mailing list for community
discussion.  <http://bitbucket.org/jhove2/main/wiki/Mailing_lists>

 

Sincerely, 

 

Stephen Abrams, California Digital Library

Tom Cramer, Stanford University

Sheila Morrissey, Portico

 

on behalf of the JHOVE2 project team

http://jhove2.org/