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This article is based on a document written to be used at Code4Lib North on May 11’th , and discusses what we’ve learned so far with our use of JHOVE. What is JHOVE? The original project was a collaboration between JSTOR and Harvard University Library, with JHOVE being an acronym for JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment.  It provides functions to perform format-specific identification, validation, and characterization of digital objects. JHOVE is currently maintained by the non-profit Open Preservation Foundation, operating out of the UK (Associated with the British Library in West Yorkshire). https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove Standard JHOVE modules for AIFF, ASCII, BYTESTREAM, GIF, HTML, JPEG, JPEG2000, PDF, TIFF, UTF8, WAVE, XML, MP3, ZIP. What is Canadiana doing with JHOVE? As of the last week of April we generate XML reports from JHOVE and include them within AIP revisions in our TDR.  At this stage we are not rejecting or flagging files based on the repo...

Some of the earliest groups on Flora.org Ask the Doctors, which was a real cool site managed by Rosaleen Dickson who I met from the Freenet. Involved in the publishing industry, she co-authored a book on HTML back in the early 1990's when it was such a new thing.  She hosted pages on Canadian Books, and following the work she did with the doctors ran a "Ask Great Granny" site. I believe Auto-Free Ottawa was the first community group I hosted, a group of people in the early 1990's envisioning an Ottawa that wasn't as dependent on the automobile. Canadian Homeschool is the last of the original groups to be hosted on FLORA.org Community Democratic Action KC. Maclure Centre MAI-not Ottawa District Committee of Ontario Special Olympics Peace and Environment Resource Centre -- still around, but has had their own domain name for quite some time. Pednet was a mailing list hosted by Majordomo, and then moved to Mailman. Visually Impaired was, I believe, information hosted...

FLORA Community Web was started in December 1994 (See Ottawa alternative community minded networking ) and the first domain name it used was flora.ocunix.on.ca. Later the name flora.ottawa.on.ca (date unknown) was adopted, and then FLORA.org (13-Oct-1996). It offered free websites and mailing lists for community groups from before these things were as easily available as they are today.  I haven't had time to spend on the server as I would like, and believe it would be best for me to admit that my interests have moved onward.   I'm in the process of helping the remaining groups hosted on FLORA.org to migrate to some other hosting. Thanks go out to the many volunteers who participated over the years, and the many friends I made through these connections. If you want to take a look at what the site looked like at various points in the past, Archive.org's Wayback engine has many snapshots.  The earliest list of flora.org organizations they have is a snapshot from 1998. ...