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JHOVE - JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment
JHOVE is a tool developed for digital curators. It checks the format of an object; determines whether the object is a valid instance of that format; and tells us what the 'salient properties' of that format are. The tool produces metadata wrapped in XML that approximates to OAIS' Representation Information. This metadata includes: file pathname or URI, last modification date, byte size, format, format version, MIME type, format profiles, and optionally, CRC32, MD5, and SHA-1 checksums. For images and audio, it also produces additional metadata consistent with the NISO Z39.87 Data Dictionary for digital still images and the draft AES metadata standard for digital audio.
