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.

What is Archivematica?
- Open source OAIS
- Lowering the barriers to best-practice digital preservation
Web-based dashboard
- 1. Tabs
- 2. User login
- 3. Packages
- 4. Micro-services and Jobs
- 5. Decision
- 6. Report/remove icons
Technical architecture
- Micro-services design pattern
- Web-based dashboard
- Format policies
- From Transfer to SIP to AIP and DIP
- Single install
Micro-services
- Micro-services in Archivematica Releases
Archivematica Quick-Start Guide
- Using the sandbox
- Installing on a virtual machine
- Starting your first transfer
- Ingest and normalization
- AIP and DIP storage
- Uploading a DIP
- Processing Configurations
- The Format Policy Registry
Configuration
- Browser compatibility
- Resource allocation
- Workflow settings
- Integration settings
- Add/edit users and passwords
- Add/edit PREMIS agents
TRAC review tool
- Drupal TRAC review tool
- Installation
- Summary
- Support
- Thanks
Transfer
- Create a transfer
- Create a transfer with submission documentation
- Create a transfer with existing checksums
- Create a transfer with an existing structmap
- Process the transfer
- Cleaning up the transfer dashboard
- Format identification
- Extract packages
Import metadata
- Workflow
- Simple objects
- Compound objects
Managing a backlog
- Retrieve from backlog
Library of Congress Bagit format
- Index and search bag metadata
Processing access and service files
- Access copies
- Service copies
Forensic images
- Workflow
- Upload image to dashboard
DSpace exports
Ingest
- Create a SIP
- Arrange a SIP from backlog
- Arranging a SIP for AtoM
- Add metadata
- Add PREMIS rights
- Normalize
- Transcribe SIP contents
- Store AIP
- Upload DIP
- Reingest AIP
  - Dashboard
  - Storage Service
Manual normalization
- Option 1: Manual normalization prior to transfer to Archivematica
- Option 2: Manual normalization during Ingest
- Adding PREMIS eventDetail for manual normalization
- Normalizing files with the same name
Archival storage
- Storing an AIP
- Searching the AIP store
- Deleting an AIP
AIP structure
- Name
- Directory structure
  - Bagit documentation
AIC
- Creating AICs
- Retrieve and update AICs
Access
- Access systems
- Store DIP
- Review/Download DIP
- Access tab
Upload DIP metadata to Archivists’ Toolkit
- Administrative settings
  - Mapping Archivematica DIP objects to Archivists’ Toolkit resource components
- Workflow
- Add PREMIS rights and restrictions
ContentDM
- Preparing a transfer for CONTENTdm
- Controlling the file order
- Create DIP for CONTENTdm
Preservation planning
- Preservation planning tab
- Format Policy Registry (FPR)
  - First-time configuration
  - Types of FPR entries
- Preservation planning policies
- Altering rules and commands
  - Changing Format Policy Rules
  - Writing commands
Dashboard administration tab
- Processing configuration
- General
- Failures
- Transfer source location
- AIP storage locations
- Processing storage usage
- AtoM DIP upload
- ArchivesSpace DIP upload
- Archivists Toolkit DIP upload
- PREMIS agent
- REST API
- Users
Error handling
- Dashboard error reporting
- Failure reports in Administration tab
- Email error report
- Normalization errors
- Dip upload error
- Other common error behaviours
- Rejecting a transfer or SIP
- Removing a transfer or SIP from the dashboard
- Browser compatability
Error reporting
- Register for an account
- Search for a bug or issue
- Create a new bug or issue
FAQ
Dublin Core in Archivematica
- General description
- Metadata handling
PREMIS metadata in Archivematica
- Basis: Copyright
- Basis: Statute
- Basis: License
- Basis: Donor
- Basis: Policy
- Basis: Other
- Acts granted or restricted