The BagIt File Packaging Format (V1.0)
RFC 8493
| Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(October 2018; Errata)
Was draft-kunze-bagit (individual)
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| Authors | John Kunze , Justin Littman , Liz Madden , John Scancella , Chris Adams | ||
| Last updated | 2020-01-21 | ||
| Stream | ISE | ||
| Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized with errata bibtex | ||
| IETF conflict review | conflict-review-kunze-bagit | ||
| Stream | ISE state | Published RFC | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| Document shepherd | Adrian Farrel | ||
| Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2018-07-12) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 8493 (Informational) | |
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Independent Submission J. Kunze
Request for Comments: 8493 California Digital Library
Category: Informational J. Littman
ISSN: 2070-1721 Stanford Libraries
E. Madden
Library of Congress
J. Scancella
C. Adams
Library of Congress
October 2018
The BagIt File Packaging Format (V1.0)
Abstract
This document describes BagIt, a set of hierarchical file layout
conventions for storage and transfer of arbitrary digital content. A
"bag" has just enough structure to enclose descriptive metadata
"tags" and a file "payload" but does not require knowledge of the
payload's internal semantics. This BagIt format is suitable for
reliable storage and transfer.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This is a contribution to the RFC Series, independently of any other
RFC stream. The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at
its discretion and makes no statement about its value for
implementation or deployment. Documents approved for publication by
the RFC Editor are not candidates for any level of Internet Standard;
see Section 2 of RFC 7841.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8493.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1. Required Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1.1. Bag Declaration: bagit.txt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1.2. Payload Directory: data/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1.3. Payload Manifest: manifest-algorithm.txt . . . . . . 7
2.2. Optional Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.2.1. Tag Manifest: tagmanifest-algorithm.txt . . . . . . . 8
2.2.2. Bag Metadata: bag-info.txt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2.3. Fetch File: fetch.txt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.2.4. Other Tag Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.3. Text Tag File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.4. Bag Checksum Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3. Complete and Valid Bags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.1. Example of a Basic Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.2. Example Bag Using fetch.txt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.1. Special Directory Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.2. Control of URLs in fetch.txt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.3. File Sizes in fetch.txt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.4. Attacks on Payload File Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6. Practical Considerations (Non-normative) . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.1. Interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.1.1. Filename Normalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.1.2. Windows and Unix File Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.1.3. Legacy Checksum Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7. Augmented Backus-Naur Form (Non-normative) . . . . . . . . . 21
7.1. Bag Declaration: bagit.txt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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