GIF-hul Module

1 Introduction

The GIF-hul module recognizes and validates the GIF (Tagged Interchange Format) format [GIF89a].

The module is invoked by the:

jhove ... -m gif-hul ...
command line option.

2 Coverage

The GIF-hul module recognizes and validates the following public profiles:

3 Well-Formedness

The following criteria must be met by a GIF object for JHOVE to consider it well-formed:

4 Validity

The following criteria must be met by a GIF file for JHOVE to consider it valid:

5 Representation Information

The MIME type is reported as: image/gif

In addition to the standard JHOVE representation information, the following GIF-specific properties are reported:

Image technical properties are reported in terms of the NISO Z39.87 data dictionary.

5.1 Profiles

6 Additional Module Properties

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