JHOVE (JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment), das Framework für Format Validierung, wurde upgegradet auf die neue Version 1.7. Aber die größere Nachricht ist, dass JHOVE zusammen mit seinem Entwickler Gary McGath Havard verlassen wird und ein Open Source Project wird. Gary McGath schreibt im File Format Blog:
„After well over a year, a new version of JHOVE is finally available. Really, not very much has changed since 1.6 as far as the software itself goes. However, I’m leaving Harvard at the end of August and asked for and got custody of JHOVE, so this version marks its transition from a Harvard-supported project (which, in practice, it hasn’t been for a long time) to a separate open-source project. The JHOVE web pages are now hosted on SourceForge, and all support and discussion will go through SourceForge. The jhove-support and jhove-users mailing lists hosted by Harvard will shut down in the near future.
This doesn’t mean JHOVE is dead. I may actually have more opportunities to work on it than before, now that I’m going into independent consulting. I need to stay visible to the library and preservation world, and this is one way to do it.”