Archivematica integration: failure

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Dario Basset

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Apr 30, 2026, 7:45:08 AMApr 30
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We're testing the integration between Archivematica 1.18 and Dataverse 6.7.1, and we’d like to share an issue we are encountering and ask whether others have seen similar behaviour.

The ingest fails when the source Dataverse dataset includes files transformed by Dataverse itself, for example a .tab file generated from an original .csv.

More in detail:
- datasets containing only the originally uploaded files ingest correctly;
- datasets containing both original files and Dataverse‑generated files cause the workflow to stop at the “Dataverse METS XML” microservice;

The error reported is:
archivematica.MCPClient.clientScripts.parse_dataverse_mets.ParseDataverseError:
Exiting. Returning the database objects for our Dataverse files has failed

This suggests difficulties when resolving file objects described in the Dataverse METS, in the presence of transformed / derivative files. We’d be grateful if you have specific experience on this or similar problems.

Philip Durbin

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Jun 24, 2026, 4:43:54 PM (10 days ago) Jun 24
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Hi Dario,

Sorry, I don't have any ideas. I'm pretty sure it used to work!* Any news from your end?

Thanks,

Phil

* The docs mention derivative/generated files: "Archivematica detects tabular data file bundles and retrieves all derivative files and metadata files." -- https://www.archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.18/user-manual/transfer/dataverse/


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Dario Basset

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Jun 25, 2026, 1:56:26 AM (9 days ago) Jun 25
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Thank you Philip.
We are investigating in Archivematica community group, but still we have not solved the issue. 
If we find a solution, I'll post it. 

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