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Stephen Abrams California Digital Library Evan Owens Portico Tom Cramer Stanford University

Digital Library Federation Fall Forum Providence, November 12-14, 2008 JH VE 2 Needs Assessment and Functional Requirements. Stephen Abrams California Digital Library Evan Owens Portico Tom Cramer Stanford University. Agenda. Project goals, deliverables, and schedule

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Stephen Abrams California Digital Library Evan Owens Portico Tom Cramer Stanford University

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  1. Digital Library Federation Fall ForumProvidence, November 12-14, 2008JHVE2Needs Assessment and Functional Requirements Stephen Abrams California Digital Library Evan Owens Portico Tom Cramer Stanford University

  2. Agenda • Project goals, deliverables, and schedule • New terminology and concepts • Functional requirements

  3. JHVE2 project • A next-generation architecture for format-aware object characterization • Three-fold goals: • Re-factor the existing architecture to achieve higher performance, simplify system integration, and encourage third-party enhancement • Provide significant new function • Implement modules • Collaborative project of CDL, Portico, and Stanford University • Funded by Library of Congress/NDIIPP • Open source BSD license

  4. New function • Complex object data model • Generic plug-in interface • Common data structure passed between modules to enable stateful processing • Identification de-coupled from validation • Standardized handling of format profiles and error reporting • Symbolic display of binary formats • API-level support for editing

  5. Format support • Based on project partner requirements and budgetary constraints • Image: JPEG 2000, TIFF • Audio: WAVE • Text: SGML, UTF-8, XML • Document: PDF • GIS: Shapefile • Color: ICC • And their well-known variants, e.g. TIFF/IT, TIFF/EP, GeoTIFF, EXIF, DNG, … • Unfortunately precluding some JHOVE-supported formats • AIFF, GIF, HTML, JPEG

  6. Schedule • Months 1-6 Outreach, design, and prototyping • Months 7-9 Core APIs and framework • Months 10-24 Module implementation

  7. For more information Wiki confluence.ucop.edu/display/JHOVE2Info/Home Mailing lists JHOVE2-Announce-L JHOVE2-Techtalk-L (Subscribe via the wiki)

  8. Terminology What is it? Identification Determining presumptive format through signature matching What is it, really? Validation Determining conformance to commonly- accepted normative requirements What about it? Feature extraction Reporting intrinsic properties significant to preservation planning and action What should you do with it? Assessment Determining acceptability for a given purpose on the basis of locally-defined policies

  9. Objects, not files

  10. Functional requirements • Given the use of new terminology to define characterization, is the conceptual basis for the project clear? • What does "assessment" mean in the context of your existing or planned preservation workflows? • Ambiguous statements in format specifications can be dealt with in two ways: • Configurable validation criteria, or • The application of assessment rules to the results of prescribed validation criteria Which seems preferable?

  11. Functional requirements • Given a potential trade-off between: • More substantive assessment capabilities • More supported formats what would your prioritization be? • Regarding the functional requirements, what is missing? What is most important? • Would you be interested in pursuing 3rd party development, or co-development, of missing functionality?

  12. Functional requirements • Do you have interesting test data that you can contribute to a JHOVE2 testbed? • Any other questions or suggestions?

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