About:
Jhove is a program used by the Archives to extract metadata from digital objects.
This article explains how to download, install, and run Jhove on the Mac OSX operating system.
More information about Jhove can be found here.
Download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jhove/files/
install:
1.) Navigate to your downloads folder and find the file "jhove-1_6.zip".
2.) Double click this file to create the folder "jhove". Drag this to the Desktop.
3.) Next we have to edit the configuration file:
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-Inside the "jhove" folder, find a the file that is simply named "jhove", with no extension.
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-This first of these should by default, read "JHOVE_HOME=fill in path to jhove java directory"
-Simply replace the text after "=" with the same path that we used in <jhoveHome> in the configuration file.
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3.) The Jhove graphic user interface should appear.
Processing files with Jhove:
1.) Highlight the folder(s) you are interested in processing and drag them directly on top of the Jhove window.
2.) You will see a progress bar as your files are processed. Once this is completed, a Jhove report will appear. We want to save this report, so on the preferences pane click on "file -> Save as...".
3.) Before saving, click the box "Choose output handler" and select "XML". Enter a file name and location to save the Jhove report, and click "Save".
