DART

work in progress

DART (Digital Archivist's Resource Tool) is a tool for creating bags (based on the BagIt specification). If you are acquiring material that cannot be sent remotely or are confident that material being transferred is very straightforward and doesn’t need to be scanned for viruses, PII, or characterized before entering Archivematica, we can put it in a bag to ensure the transfer has checksums (to ensure nothing changes when moved) and some minimal metadata.

Installing DART and importing settings

If you are using one of the Windows based processing computers, you will have to install DART and import the settings.

Install

1. To install DART, go to the DART docs page and download the .exe file under "Download" for Windows.
2. Double-click the installer after download and follow the prompts on screen. Windows may give a warning, select more information, and then run anyway.
3. There should now be a shortcut on your desktop, click it and DART should open.

Import settings

1. Go to Settings > Import Settings
2. Select the Import from URL option
3. Enter this URL: (link)
4. The settings import will show if it successful on screen. You should now be ready to start using DART.

Creating and transferring the bag

1. If you haven't already, open DART
2. Go to Jobs > New
3. Drag and drop any files you want to transfer onto the DART window. When ready click Next >>.
4. Under BagIt Profile, select the profile most appropriate for the content you are transferrings.
   1. MIT Institute Archives Collections (AC) for archival collections
   2. MIT Manuscript Collections (MC) for manuscript collections
5. For Serialization, select ".tar"
6. Package Name should be the accession number with an underscore in between, followed by “acc” for instance “2020_099acc”. Or if you are transferring the package as part of a group, we will omit the acc and replace it with _001, etc, for instance: "2020_099_001". The package name will be the name of the folder produced in the new location.
7. Output path is the location where the files will be going to. Edit the location after entering all the other information (leaving the package name) or it will revert to the default location. This could be a local processing folder or the submission drive. Choose one of the following to send items to the Transfer folder that will be ready to go through Archivematica:
   1. On Windows: [drive letter for submission]:\Transfer (for example Z:\Transfer)
      
   2. On Macs: /Volumes/submission/transfer
   3. On BitCurator: /(fill in)
      
8. Click Next >>
9. On the Bag Metadata page, click the "Show All Tags" Button at the top of the page. This will allow you to see fields that have default or partially filled-in values that you can adjust for your particular transfer.
10. Enter or adjust any metadata related to the transfer following the help text (hover over the "?" symbol to see this for each field).
11. Click Next >>
12. The Upload Targets page should be blank, this is only used when sending content to a cloud service, Click Next >>
13. On the next page, review the job, you can go back if you need to adjust something by clicking Back>>, if not, click the "Run Job" button
14. The progress screen will show when the bag is created and validated. If successful, move on to the next stage. If it fails, try the process again or contact the digital archivist.