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Media type (also known as a MIME type) is a widely used system for labelling the format of data. There is a [central database of Media/MIME types](https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml) maintained by [Internet...
In one use-case for handling Big Data (tm) with BagIt, we've been discussing if it's valid to list the same file multiple times in `fetch.txt` from different locations, e.g.: fetch.txt...
Congrats on [RFC 8493](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8493)! Is the plan to put the lastest spec test in this repository or over at https://github.com/libraryofcongress/bagit-spec ?
This is a replacement for #17 reflecting the move from the old loc-rdc organization to the primary LibraryOfCongress. The primary notable change from #17 is restoring the `fetch.txt` section following...
Is it currently undefined what is the meaning for files listed in `fetch.txt` that already exist in the bag. How should a consumer of such a bag interpret this? a)...
When resolving a URL in `fetch.txt`, you may get different results depending on [content negotiation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_negotiation). Therefore you may get a different resource back (e.g. HTML instead of JSON) depending on...
I'm running tools that update our bags between receipt and ingest. I would like to record PREMIS events for each of these, and bag-info.txt seems like the most appropriate location....
The BagIt specification lets you specify that UTF-8 encoding be used in tag manifests. But it doesn't appear to assume a [particular normalization form](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence). I have [a problem](https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagit-python/issues/51) where files...
Current BagIt libraries differ in how they handle empty directories added as a payload. For example, with the following sample structure, |-directory\ | |-empty_directory\ | |-payload_file ... bagit-java (and Bagger)...