Creating a transfer package

A transfer package is a zip file containing the born-digital files you want to store, plus some metadata.

The files can be in any structure, including folders and subfolders.

An example transfer package. There's a folder called "transfer_package", which contains three images and a folder called "metadata". The metadata folder contains a single file, metadata.csv.

The metadata files must be stored in a top-level folder called metadata.

Metadata files

We use two metadata files in our transfer packages:

Compressing the package

The files must be in the top-level of the zip; there can't be an enclosing folder.

Selecting the enclosing folder, then right-clicking and 'Compress folder', in the macOS Finder

Selecting all the top-level files, then right-clicking and 'Compress', in the macOS Finder.

See also

Transfer in the Archivematica documentation – we use the "zipped directory" transfer type.

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