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h2. Summary

| Purpose | {excerpt}Provides functions to perform format-specific identification, validation, and characterisation of digital objects.{excerpt} |
| Homepage \\ | [http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/] |
| Source Code Repository \\ | [http://sourceforge.net/projects/jhove/] |
| License \\ | JHOVE is made available by JSTOR and the President and Fellows of Harvard College under the [GNU|http://www.gnu.org/] [Lesser General Public License|http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#LGPL] (LGPL). |
| Debian Package | \\ |


h2. Description

JHOVE provides functions to perform format-specific identification, validation, and characterization of digital objects.

Potential use cases for JHOVE include:
# Identification
## "I have an object; what format is it?"
# Validation
## "I have an object that purports to of format _F_; is it?"
## "I have an object of format _F_; does it meet profile _P_ of _F_?"
## "I have an object of format _F_ and external metadata about _F_ in schema _S_; are they consistent?"
# Characterization
## "I have an object of format _F_; what are its salient properties (given in schema _S_)?"

Extracts properties from files and attempts to validate against format spec. Supports AIFF ASCII GIF HTML JPEG JPEG2000 PDF TIFF UTF-8 WAVE XML.

h2. User Experiences

e.g. links to AQuA/SCAPE/Hackathon issues that use the tool

[http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/AQuA/jp2+header+analysis]


h2. News Feeds

h3. Release Feed

Link to any RSS feed that is updated when new releases occur, if any, e.g:
{rss:max=7|url=http://sourceforge.net/api/file/index/project-id/221311/mtime/desc/limit/20/rss}

h3. Activity Feed

Link to any RSS feed that is updated when issue or code updates occur, if any, e.g:
{rss:max=7|url=http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_keepsake.php?group_id=221311}