SIP Structure

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A Transfer or SIP in Archivematica has a number of special directories and files. Many of these are created by Archivematica, and should not be submitted by users. Others will trigger specific workflows if included in the transfer.

Path	File or Folder?	Source?	Usage
/SIP_Folder	folder	User	Top level container for the the SIP
/SIP_Folder/DIP	folder	Archivematica	This will become the DIP
/SIP_Folder/DIP/objects	folder	Archivematica	Contains the access derivatives
/SIP_Folder/DIP/thumbnails	folder	Archivematica	Contains thumbnails for the DIP
/SIP_Folder/logs	folder	Archivematica	Log files generated by Archivematica
/SIP_Folder/logs/fileMeta	folder	User	Uncertain, used in the TRIM workflow
/SIP_Folder/metadata	folder	User	Metadata files provided by the user. Depending on the file, these may be processed by Archivematica.
/SIP_Folder/metadata/checksum.md5	text file	User	External checksums for original files. Format is the same as the output of md5deep -rl objects/. Also supported: checksums.sha1 and checksums.sha256
/SIP_Folder/metadata/file_labels.csv	CSV file	User	Labels for files in the METS structMap
/SIP_Folder/metadata/metadata.csv	CSV file	User	File-level DublinCore metadata
/SIP_Folder/metadata/metadata.json	JSON file	User	File-level DublinCore metadata formatted as JSON. Will be converted to a CSV during processing
/SIP_Folder/metadata/rights.csv	CSV file	User	File-level PREMIS Rights metadata.
/SIP_Folder/METS.sip-uuid.xml	XML file	Archivematica	Contains all of the metadata on the METS
/SIP_Folder/objects	folder	User or Archivematica	Original objects provide by the user. If this directory doesn't exist, all files in /SIP_Folder will be moved here by Archivematica
/SIP_Folder/objects/access	folder	User	Triggers manually created access derivatives workflow, which is deprecated in favor of manual normalization workflow.
/SIP_Folder/objects/manualNormalization/normalization.csv	CSV file	User	CSV that provides a mapping for original objects of the same name to their access and preservation derivatives in manual normalization.
/SIP_Folder/objects/manualNormalization/access	folder	User	Access derivatives created outside of Archivematica. Should have the same filename as the original, but may have a different extension
/SIP_Folder/objects/manualNormalization/preservation	folder	User	Preservation derivatives created outside of Archivematica. Should have the same filename as the original, but may have a different extension
/SIP_Folder/objects/service	folder	User	Service files - cleaned up versions of the original that are not derivatives. Normalization can be performed on these files instead of the originals
/SIP_Folder/processingMCP.xml	XML file	Archivematica or user	Automates workflow decisions. Created by Archivematica, but can be submitted as part of the Transfer to override the default pipeline workflow choices.
/SIP_Folder/submissionDocumentation	folder	User	Folder for files that are not original objects but should still be in the AIP
/SIP_Folder/thumbnails	folder	Archivematica	Contains thumbnail derivatives