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
- Create a transfer
- Create a transfer with submission documentation
- Create a transfer with existing checksums
  - Standard transfers
  - Disk image transfers
- Process the transfer
- Cleaning up the transfer dashboard
- Format identification
- Extract packages
Import metadata
- Importing descriptive metadata with metadata.csv
- Simple objects
- Compound objects
- Importing rights metadata with rights.csv
Managing a backlog
- Retrieve from backlog
Library of Congress Bagit format
- Index and search bag metadata
Processing digitization output
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
- Re-ingest AIP
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
- Format Policy Registry (FPR)
  - FPR entries
- Preservation planning policies
- Altering rules and commands
  - Changing Format Policy Rules
  - Writing commands
Dashboard administration tab
- Processing configuration
  - Processing configuration fields
- 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
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
Appraisal
- Transfers in the Backlog
  - Adding Tags
- Analysis
- File List
- ArchivesSpace Resources
- Adding Files to ArchivesSpace Resources and Starting SIPs
- Arrangement
Backlog
- Searching for transfers
- Searching for files
- Downloading transfers or files
- Deletion of transfers
Translations
- Join the Archivematica project
- Start translating
- Finding the context of a string
  - Archivematica Docs
- Editing translated strings