Ingesting Digital Materials
For materials that already exist in our collections and have been previously accessioned, like scans received from a vendor for digitized in house.
Ingesting scans of paper materials, digitized audio or video content, or born-digital materials, places them in a consistent storage with a backup. This prevents files from getting lost or accidentally deleted and ensures that they will be managed overtime.
\\Lincoln\Library\SPE_Processing is like our stacks. Ingesting items is like placing them on the stacks instead of in an office or table somewhere.
During ingest, a second, read-only copy is created in \\Lincoln\Masters\Archives\SIP in a bagit bag. You shouldn't have to worry about this copy, but this way we always have a second copy of the ingested files in case of errors or accidental deletion.
If you are working with new born-digital materials haven't been accessioned in ASpace yet, use Accessioning New Born-Digital Records instead.
How to ingest digital materials
Results of Ingest
Files will be packaged unto a SIP bag here: \\Lincoln\Masters\Archives\SIP\<collection ID>\<package ID>
SIP and AIP packages are here: https://github.com/UAlbanyArchives/packages
Processing folder for package is created in \\Lincoln\Library\SPE_Processing\backlog\<collection ID>\<package ID>
Master files are placed in \masters subfolder
Example Processing package:
ua809_JxkK2VWVFu7F8VWaTe72BG
derivatives
masters
metadata