Managing Incoming Digital Content  From UA Libraries Digital
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Whether digital content comes to Digital Services that has been
digitized by someone else, or born digital, it’s much the same
set of issues:    1. we need to protect the original (even
opening the file or virus checking it can change it)   2. we
need to virus check it before anything else   3. we need to find
out everything we can about it, including file dates, file
structure, who created it, when, what’s it about, etc (hence the
latest documentation files)   4. we need to capture a snapshot
of it if possible (ISO image), and md5 checksums before and
after transfer (then compare!)   5. we need to figure out
whether we have to put it online, and/or have to preserve it
6. we need to figure out how to do those things. This means
determining what the significant properties are of the file
(text? image? video? software? audio?) , the appropriate file
types to transfer to (both for web d