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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 >