Trying Out a3m

Overview Let’s try a3m. https://github.com/artefactual-labs/a3m a3m is described as follows. a3m is a lightweight version of Archivematica focused on AIP creation. It has neither external dependencies, integration with access sytems, search capabilities nor a graphical interface. Differences from Archivematica The following is also quoted from the documentation. The main differentiator is the lack of service dependencies. a3m does not depend on Gearman or external workers, MySQL, Elasticsearch or Nginx. a3m provides its own API server based on the gRPC stack and all processing is performed via system threads and spawned child processes. An embedded database based on SQLite is used to store temporary processing state. ...

June 13, 2024 · 9 min · Nakamura

Trying Out AIPscan

Overview In this article, I try out the following tool. https://github.com/artefactual-labs/AIPscan This tool is described as follows: AIPscan was developed to provide a more in-depth reporting solution for Archivematica users. It crawls METS files from AIPs in the Archivematica Storage Service to generate tabular and visual reports about repository holdings. It is designed to run as a stand-alone add-on to Archivematica. It only needs a valid Storage Service API key to fetch source data. ...

February 25, 2024 · 2 min · Nakamura