BYTESTREAM Module

1 Introduction

The BYTESTREAM module recognizes and validates arbitrary bytestreams. This module exists merely to provide a default format during identification operations.

The module is invoked by the:

jhove ... -m bytestream ...

There are no BYTESTREAM profiles.

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

• All bytestreams are well-formed

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

• The bytestream is well-formed

The MIME type is reported as: application/octet-stream

The module does not define any additional representation information beyond the standard properties.