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Attendees at next week's DLF Fall Forum who are planning on coming to the "JHOVE2 Needs Assessment and Functional Requirements" Birds-of-a-Feather session (Thursday, Nov. 13, 2:30-3:30pm, Providence I, 3rd floor), are asked to please review the current functional requirements document (v. 1.1, 2008-11-05) and other material on the project wiki <http://confluence.ucop.edu/display/JHOVE2Info/Home> prior to the session. This BOF is an important component of the project's public needs assessment activity. Due to the limited time available, we'd like to structure the session around the following questions: * Given the use of new terminology to define characterization, is the conceptual basis for the project clear? * What does "assessment" mean in the context of your existing or planned preservation workflows? * Ambiguous statements in format specifications can be dealt with in two ways: configurable validation criteria or the application of assessment rules to the results of prescribed validation criteria. Which seems preferable? * Given a potential trade-off between more substantive assessment capabilities and more supported formats, what would your prioritization be? * Regarding the functional requirements, what is missing? What is most important? * Would you be interested in pursuing 3rd party development, or co-development, of missing functionality? * Do you have interesting test data that you can contribute to a JHOVE2 testbed? We look forward to an interesting and informative discussion. Thank you, Stephen Abrams, CDL Evan Owens, Portico Tom Cramer, Stanford University on behalf of the JHOVE2 project team