SIP Structure

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A Transfer or SIP in Archivematica has a number of special directories and files that will trigger specific workflows.

Path	File or Folder?	Usage
/SIP_Folder	folder	Top level container for the the SIP
/SIP_Folder/DIP	folder	Created by Archivematica for the DIP
/SIP_Folder/DIP/objects	folder	Created by Archivematica and contains the access objects
/SIP_Folder/DIP/thumbnails	folder	Created by Archivematica for thumbnails for the DIP objects
/SIP_Folder/logs	folder	Created by Archivematica for log files generated by Archivematica
/SIP_Folder/logs/fileMeta	folder	???
/SIP_Folder/metadata	folder	Metadata files provided by the user or created by Archivematica
/SIP_Folder/metadata/checksums.md5	text file	User-provided 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	???
/SIP_Folder/metadata/metadata.csv	CSV file	User-provided file-level DublinCore metadata
/SIP_Folder/metadata/metadata.json	JSON file	User-provided file-level DublinCore metadata formatted as JSON. Will be converted to a CSV during processing
/SIP_Folder/METS.sip-uuid.xml	XML file	Created by Archivematica with all of the metadata on the METS
/SIP_Folder/objects	folder	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	Triggers access workflow. Deprecated in favor of manual normalization workflow.
/SIP_Folder/objects/manualNormalization/normalization.csv	CSV file	User-provided CSV that provides a mapping for original objects of the same name to their access and preservation derivatives
/SIP_Folder/objects/manualNormalization/access	folder	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	Preservation derivatives created outside of Archivematica. Should have the same filename as the original, but may have a different extension
/SIP_Folder/service	folder	User-provided service files. Normalization can be performed on these files instead of the originals
/SIP_Folder/submissionDocumentation	folder	Folder for user-provided files that are not original objects but should still be in the AIP
/SIP_Folder/thumbnails	folder	Created by Archivematica for thumbnail derivatives