Bert,
Looks really interesting. What license are you releasing this application under? Also, the Github repo https://github.com/avpreserve/uk-exactly doesn't exist (at least to the public) - it's linked to in the User Guide.
Mark
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> 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).
> ____________________
> Bertram Lyons, CA
> AVPreserve | www.avpreserve.com
> International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives |
> www.iasa-web.org
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