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Gary McGath edited this page Mar 30, 2014 · 4 revisions

This is the new home for JHOVE (JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment). JHOVE is software for identifying file formats, validating files, and extracting metadata for specified file formats. It's widely used by libraries and archives. It was originally developed by the Harvard University Library and is now independently maintained.

JHOVE should not be confused with JHOVE2, a product with similar aims but a completely separate code base.

JHOVE is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

The old repository is on SourceForge. The documentation is still there, and will be till I figure out something better. Code changes will go here, but the documentation may continue to be updated on SourceForge for a while.

The initial plan is to change the build from Ant plus a lot of manual work to a more easily run Maven build.

Branches

There are several branches which represent old work from SourceForge. They're no longer active.

There's a branch called pull_staging, for bringing in pull requests that may require some testing. Give it a try if you're adventurous, and please report any issues.

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