AIP and DIP Deep Nesting Structure

[Frankie Serio]

Hello,

I am assisting with an Archivematica pilot project for our organization. We're running Archivematica on Centos 7.

We're having an issue with AIPs and DIPs coming out of Archivematica with a deep nesting structure that seems to be associated with the SIP UUID during Ingest. For instance, this is what the SIP directory name and UUID look like:

2401001(test1970_5)-41715844-fa14-4c60-9896-81345af4df14

Then the AIP structure that gets stored into our server looks like this--each forward slash represents a folder:

4171/5844/fa14/4c60/9896/8134/5af4/df14/2401001(test1970_5)-41715844-fa14-4c60-9896-81345af4df14

I'm not sure why this is happening. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Frankie Serio

Graduate Assistant in Digital Preservation
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

[gclibrary...@gmail.com]

I wonder if the parentheses in the original SIP name breaks/confuses Archivematica?

[Sarah Romkey]

Hello,

This is actually expected behaviour. If you are using Archivematica's Storage Service to access your AIPs you don't really "see" them but you will from other storage interfaces- the AIP is stored in quad directories for retrieval purposes. There was a discussion about the reasons why a while back in this thread: https://groups.google.com/g/archivematica/c/g3-LKAUEbFI/m/xT4b9wzEDgAJ 

Hope this helps,

-Sarah