AVPreserve and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University
of Kentucky Libraries are excited to announce the release of a new tool for
born-digital acquisition and delivery.
Building on work originally begun by colleagues at the Gates Archive,
AVPreserve and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University
of Kentucky Libraries developed Exactly to meet the growing need for
archives to acquire born digital content directly from donors and to begin
the activities of establishing provenance and fixity early in the process
of acquisition. Read more about how the Nunn Center is using Exactly here
<http://digitalomnium.com/exactly-a-new-tool-to-safely-transfer-born-digital-materials-to-the-archive/>
.
Exactly is a simple and easy to use application for remotely and safely
transferring any born-digital material from a sender to a recipient.
Exactly utilizes the BagIt File Packaging Format (an Internet Engineering
Task-Force standard, developed by the Library of Congress and the
California Digital Library, with current support from George Washington
University and the University of Maryland), supports FTP transfer, as well
as standard network transfers, and integrates into desktop-based file
sharing workflows such as Dropbox or Google Drive. Additionally, Exactly
allows the recipient to create customized metadata templates for the sender
to fill out before submission. Exactly can send email notifications with
transfer data and manifests when files have been delivered to the archive.
Read more about Exactly’s features in the Users Guide and the Exactly
Quickstart tutorial at our Exactly webpage
<https://www.avpreserve.com/news/exactly-a-new-tool-for-digital-file-acquisitions/>.
Downloads for the Exactly application are also available there (Windows
executable, Mac OS Build, or Java Package).
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AVPreserve | www.avpreserve.com
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