<div dir="ltr">The Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) has started the process of taking over stewardship of JHOVE, the widely-used open source digital preservation tool.<br><br>JHOVE (JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment) provides functions to perform format-specific identification, validation, and characterisation of digital objects. It was originally developed by Harvard Library and JSTOR in 2003.<div><br><a href="http://openpreservation.org/news/open-preservation-foundation-to-provide-sustainable-home-for-jhove/">http://openpreservation.org/news/open-preservation-foundation-to-provide-sustainable-home-for-jhove/</a></div></div>