A colleague and I wrote up how we did it a while back in code4lib journal
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/4468
We used JHOVE in addition to bagit which was probably overkill.
Edward Iglesias
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Kari R Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Kathryn,
> Bagger provides for validating stored Bags. You might need to write a
> script to run that as a Batch. Also check out the AVPreserve tool Fixity,
> which is a fixity management / monitoring tool. Deciding on the
> appropriate schedule will be important if you're using the Amazon cloud for
> storage of one of your preservation copies (another one should be not in
> the Amazon cloud) because of the cost of connecting to the data being
> stored there and the transmission costs. Generally, storage in the cloud
> services is not expensive but connecting and using the digital objects is
> when/how they make their money.
>
> Best,
> Kari Smith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Kathryn Frederick (Library)
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 11:44 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] long-term preservation of digital files
>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to develop a process for long-term preservation of the files
> we're creating though our digitization projects. My current plan is to bag
> groups of files using Bagger. Each bag would include all versions of the
> file (generally TIFF, JPEG, PDF and .txt transcript), a file of technical
> metadata (generated using exiftool), and .xml and marc files of descriptive
> metadata. Bagger will generate the checksums and create a file manifest.
> Our IT department is providing 8TB of Amazon S3 storage and have set up an
> AWS storage gateway. The storage will be dedicated to these files and
> access will strictly limited. I'm planning to regularly audit what's been
> stored but haven't decided on a tool to do that. Any recommendations? Is
> there anything else I should consider doing?
> Thanks in advance for any advice!
> Kathryn
>
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