Quickstart

The basic process for creating and managing a collection in egaia is as follows.

# Make a directory and copy some files into it...
$ mkdir foo
$ cp FILE1 FILE2 FILE3 foo/

# Identify the directory as an archival collection
$ cd foo
$ egaia bag

# Edit the metadata for the collection
$ libreoffice metadata-en.docx

# Tag the new files -- this will add a unique identifier (UUID string) to
# each filename
$ egaia tag

# Create derivative files in archival and preservation formats
$ egaia derive

# Edit the item metadata
$ libreoffice FILE1.metadata-*.docx

# Update the collection manifests
$ egaia bag

# Generate a catalogue in HTML format
$ egaia make all