Bagging manual

Digital preservation encompasses a range of policies, activities, and infrastructure meant to ensure that digital objects can be found, identified, and accurately rendered in the long term.¹ UTL has adopted digital preservation workflows and practices modeled after the OAIS reference model. While the bulk of digital preservation work at UTL is carried out by the Digital Stewardship unit, certain preservation steps can be carried out by collections managers to reduce bottlenecks, reduce digital backlogs, and get collections written to the LTO tape archive more quickly.

The goal of this manual is to help Digital Stewardship staff and staff in other units produce tape-ready “bags” of files and associated metadata. “Bags” and “bagging” refer to the Library of Congress’ “BagIt” specification for packaged collection materials. This manual covers Command line basics, Preparing bag structures, Deleting hidden files, Extracting technical metadata with FITS, and Creating bags.

_{1. "Definitions of Digital Preservation", American Library Association, February 21, 2008. http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/preserv/defdigpres0408 (Accessed February 16, 2022). Document ID: 21609b50-bc60-46e4-848e-dc5fdabdb128}