JHOVE News

This is the old news page. The most recent news, in chronological order, can be found here.

1 Releases

• Maintenance pre-release 1.1i, 2007-12-17; release notes are available here; a list of known errors in this release is available here
• Production release 1.0, 2005-05-26; release notes are available here; a list of known errors in this release is available here
• Pre-release 1.0 (beta 3), 2005-02-04; release notes are available here; a list of known errors in this release is available here
• Pre-release 1.0 (beta 2), 2004-07-19; release notes are available here
• Pre-release 1.0 (beta 1), 2004-04-15
• Pre-release 1.0 (alpha 13), 2004-01-29

Note that beginning with the beta 2 release JHOVE is made available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

2 Mailing lists

A "JHOVE-users" mailing list has been established to provide a public forum for general discussion and announcements and is intended to increase the adoption and usefulness of JHOVE in the digital library, archives, repository, and preservation communities. More information is available here.

3 Enhancements

June 2006: A concortium of Harvard University, Portico, and Stanford University have submitted a proposal to the Library of Congress under the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) initiative for a project entitied, JHOVE2: A Next-Generation Architecture for Format-Aware Digital Preservation Processing. The scope of the JHOVE2 project is defined in the proposal document available at http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/JHOVE2-proposal.doc. The goals of the project are threefold: to refactor the architecture and implementation of JHOVE to increase performance, ease integration, and simplify third-party extensions; to provide enhance functions, including a more sophisticated data model capable of representing nested formatted bit streams and objects manifest in more than one file, increased opportunity for local customization, and a more generic plug-in framework capable of supported arbitrary processing modules; and to increase the range of supported formats and provide a new format-based risk assessment module. All current JHOVE functionality will be retained. The input of the JHOVE user community will be actively solicited as part of the design phase of the project.

Update 31-Mar-2009: Updated links to the JHOVE2 site and the JHOVE2 proposal.

April 2008: In an effort to increase the openness of JHOVE and allow non-HUL participants to submit bug fixes and new modules, JHOVE 1 is being placed on SourceForge. Those who would like to participate should ask to be added to the project developer list. This doesn't affect JHOVE 2; that will probably be added to SourceForge in due course, but as a different project.

For more information: jhove-support at hulmail.harvard.edu