User manual¶

Below you’ll find an outline of the chapters in the user manual, and a set of links to each chapter’s main sections.

Transfer
- The Transfer tab
- Preparing digital objects for transfer
- Processing a transfer
- Cleaning up the transfer dashboard
  - Remove a single transfer
  - Remove all completed transfers
Import metadata
- Importing descriptive metadata with metadata.csv
- Importing and validating XML metadata with source-metadata.csv
- Importing rights metadata with rights.csv
- Importing event metadata with premis.xml
- Adding metadata to bags
- Importing other types of metadata
- Importing structural metadata with mets_structmap.xml
Unzipped and zipped bags
- Bag structure requirements
- Configuring bags
- Index and search bag metadata
Forensic disk images
- Workflow configuration options
- Using the disk image transfer type
  - Compound disk images
DSpace exports
- DSpace version compatibility
- DSpace export structure
- Processing DSpace exports
- DSpace AIP METS files
Scan for viruses
- Exploring ClamAV settings
  - Clamscan
  - Clamdscan
Filename changes
Dataverse Integration
- Overview
- Selecting Datasets for preservation
- Dataset contents
- Processing Dataverse datasets
- Dataverse METS file
- AIP METS file
- Configuration
Ingest
- Create a SIP
- Add descriptive metadata
  - Adding metadata using the user interface form
  - Uploading metadata CSV files through the user interface
- Add PREMIS rights
- Normalize
- Bind PIDs
- Transcribe SIP contents
- Store AIP
- Upload DIP
- Re-ingest AIP
- Clean up the ingest dashboard
  - Remove a single ingest
  - Remove all completed ingests
Manual normalization
- Workflow 1: Manual normalization prior to transfer to Archivematica
- Workflow 2: Manual normalization during Ingest
- Adding PREMIS eventDetail for manual normalization
- Normalizing files with the same name
Archival storage
- Browsing the AIP store
  - Downloading all AIP metadata in a CSV file
- Searching the AIP store
  - Conducting a search
  - Searching for Archival Information Collections (AICs)
- AIP information page
- AIP encryption
- AIP storage structure
AIP structure
- Name
- AIP contents
  - BagIt files
  - Data directory
    - AIP METS file
    - README file
    - Logs
    - Objects
    - Thumbnails
Archival Information Collections (AICs)
- Create an Archival Information Collection
  - Step 1: Create your AIPs
  - Step 2: Create the AIC
- Search for AICs
- Update an AIC
- AIC contents
Access
- Access systems
- Upload a DIP to AtoM
  - Metadata-only upload to AtoM
- Upload a DIP to Binder
- Upload a DIP to ArchivesSpace
- Store DIP
- Review and download DIPs
- Access tab
CONTENTdm
- Preparing a transfer for CONTENTdm
- Controlling the file order
- Create DIP for CONTENTdm
Preservation Planning
- Preservation Planning policies
- Definitions
  - Format
  - Format group
  - Purpose
  - Tools
  - Commands
  - Rules
- Altering commands and rules
  - Writing commands
  - Changing rules
- Identification
- Characterization
- Event Detail
- Extraction
- Normalization
- Transcription
- Validation
- Verification
Dashboard administration tab
- Processing configuration
  - Processing configuration fields
- General
- Failures
- Storage locations
- Processing storage usage
- DIP upload
  - AtoM/Binder DIP upload
  - ArchivesSpace DIP upload
- PREMIS agent
- REST API
- Users
- Handle Server config
- Language
- Version
METS in Archivematica
- General description
  - <metsHdr>
  - <dmdSec>
  - <amdSec>
  - <fileSec>
  - <structMap>
Dublin Core in Archivematica
- General description
- Metadata handling
PREMIS metadata in Archivematica
- PREMIS Events metadata
- PREMIS Events list
- PREMIS Agent metadata
- PREMIS Rights metadata
Appraisal
- Backlog
  - Tagging files
- Analysis
- File list
- ArchivesSpace
- Arrangement
Backlog
- Searching for transfers and files
- Downloading transfers or files
- Deleting transfers
- Retrieving transfers from the backlog
Translations
- Join the Archivematica project
- Start translating
- Finding the context of a string
  - Archivematica documentation
- Editing translated strings