guggenheim-jonathanfarbowitz / pre-ingest

A utility for copying files, bagging, and validating bagged files against original.

copy / bag / validate

A utility for copying a specific file or directory from external media, converting the local copy to a Bag named according to repository standards (using MoMA's TMS API), valdating the BagIt generated SHA1 checksums against Hashlib calculated SHA1 of the files on the original source media. Requires bagit-python, and currently only works with MoMA's TMS API.

Command Line Usage

python pre-ingest.py -i /Volumes/source-drive/source-directory -n "name of transfer" -id 930.2012

Used internally on the MoMA network, this would result in the transfer of the files, and a bag named "Will_Wright---SimCity_2000---930.2012---152406"

Arguments

• -id, --accessionid (required) object/acession number of the artwork.
• -i, --input (required) Full path of the source directory or file
• -o, --output (optional) Full path of the destination. Defaults to Desktop.
• -t, --title (optional) Title of the transfer.
• -n, --name (optional) Name of the person operating the script. This winds up in the Bag's metadata

Output

Bags are named with the following convention ArtistLastname_ArtistFirstname---Title_of_artwork---acessionNumber---TMSObjectID

To-to list

• add exception for inability to resolve connection to TMS
• add component interaction (list / select)
• document original order of files (METS?)