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JHOVE2 Project
Lead Partner: California Digital Library
Additional Partners: Portico, Stanford University
This project supports the next version of the JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment. JHOVE performs format-specific identification, validation, and characterization of digital objects. JHOVE 2 aims to address a number of areas identified by the collective experience of the JHOVE user community.
Objectives:
- To refactor the existing JHOVE architecture and API
- To support enhancements to existing JHOVE functionality
- To develop JHOVE2 modules supporting a number of important preservation-related processes.
More detailed project information can be found at the Project Web site.
Highlights:
- JHOVE2 Principal Investigator Stephen Abrams is a digital preservation pioneer
- JHOVE2 Functional Requirements
- Paper: "What? So What?" The Next-generation JHOVE2 Architecture for Format-aware Characterization (2008) (PDF, 184 Kb).
