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 (external link).

Highlights:

• JHOVE2 Principal Investigator Stephen Abrams is a digital preservation pioneer
• JHOVE2 Functional Requirements (external link)
• Paper: "What? So What?" The Next-generation JHOVE2 Architecture for Format-aware Characterization (2008) (external link) (PDF, 184 Kb).