[Rdap] compressing files

[Robert R. Downs]

The BagIt File Packaging Format might be of interest. It was developed 
by the California Digital Library and the US Library of Congress. Others 
also have been developing tools to meet the specification. More 
information can be found at the links, below.

https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/BagIt
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kunze-bagit-10
http://sourceforge.net/projects/loc-xferutils/
https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagit-java/

Thanks,

Bob Downs

Robert R. Downs, PhD
Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
The Earth Institute, Columbia University
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
Voice: 845-365-8985; fax: 845-365-8922
E-mail: rdowns at ciesin.columbia.edu
Columbia University CIESIN Web site: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu


On 7/2/2014 5:56 PM, Daureen Nesdill wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been asked to gather information about compressing data files 
> before submitting them to our IR. Are there any standards? Is this 
> what people are usually doing. I'm assuming lossless rather than lossy 
> compression. What our IR folks are proposing is zipping all files 
> (datasets and files about the dataset) together.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daureen
>
> Daureen Nesdill MS, MLIS -Data Curation Librarian
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