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:

• metadata.csv, which contains the identifier.

  If it's a catalogued package, the CSV should have two columns and the catalogue identifier in dc.identifier:

  filename,dc.identifier
  objects/,PP/MDM/A/3/1a

  If it's an accession, the CSV should have three columns and the accession number in accession_number:

  filename,collection_reference,accession_number
  objects/,SA/TIH,2314_2

  In both cases, the CSV only ever has objects/ as the filename.

• rights.csv, which contains the rights information [https://github.com/wellcomecollection/archivematica-infrastructure/issues/113]

Compressing the package

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

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See also

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