First time using Bagit to make an AIP

[EmEbner]

Hello,

My name is Eric Ebner, I am an intern at the Moravian Archives located in Bethlehem, PA, and I am looking for some help using Bagit to create AIPs through BitCurator. In the past, I have used Bagger to create an AIP for school course through BitCurator, however, the newest version of BitCurator does not contain Bagger so Bagit is currently the only option. I am having a hard time finding a step by step guide on how to use Bagit it to create an AIP so if anyone could please offer some help it would be appreciated! I am also not used to using coding to much or anything of the sort so Bagit's command line is a bit scary. Again thanks for any help provided!

Best,

Eric

[edsu]

Hi @EmEbner,

It looks like BitCurator comes with python-bagit pre-installed which takes some of the pain away. As you note, bagit-python is a command line utility so you do need to interact with it in a terminal window instead of a desktop GUI application.

If you are able to open a terminal window, you simply tell bagit the directory that contains the content you want to bag up:

bagit.py /path/to/my/data

That will create the bag in place, and start a bag-info.txt which you can update with more detailed metadata. If you prefer you can pass some of the metadata on the command line too:

bagit.py --contact-name "Eric Ebner" --external-description "Moravian Archives data" /path/to/my/data

Then if you want to validate the bag you can:

bagit.py --validate /path/to/my/bag

Does that help at all?

[EmEbner]

Hi Ed, It does help, thank you! My colleague and I at the Archives ended up downloading Bagger to create a sample AIP. We’ve been taking notes one what to do if Bagit has to be used in the future. Thanks again for your response. Take care, Eric

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On May 2, 2019, at 12:38 PM, Ed Summers ***@***.***> wrote: Hi @EmEbner, It looks like BitCurator comes with python-bagit pre-installed which takes some of the pain away. As you note, bagit-python is a command line utility so you do need to interact with it in a terminal window instead of a desktop GUI application. If you are able to open a terminal window, you simply tell bagit the directory that contains the content you want to bag up: bagit.py /path/to/my/data That will create the bag in place, and start a bag-info.txt which you can update with more detailed metadata. If you prefer you can pass some of the metadata on the command line too: bagit.py --contact-name "Eric Ebner" --external-description "Moravian Archives data" /path/to/my/data Then if you want to validate the bag you can: bagit.py --validate /path/to/my/bag Does that help at all? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.