24 May
2014
24 May
'14
10:06 a.m.
On 05/24/2014 09:29 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
Archivists would prefer to have the contents of the
tape, not the
image itself, since that would be of the most use to researchers in
the future. Ideally, what would be saved is a picture of the
container where all of the markings are visible, the image, a
description of the image format, and the decoded and verfied contents
of the image, along with SHA1 or better checksums for fixity checking
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kunze-bagit-05
http://sourceforge.net/projects/loc-xferutils/files/loc-bagger/2.1.3/
Is the description and code for the current version of bagit,
developed by the California Digital Library, Stanford, and the
Library of Congress as a transfer standard.
Thanks, Al. I'll pass this on to my contact--she's pretty new at this
archiving stuff.
--Chuck