Working with the Library of Congress BagIt library, it is possible to create Bags on disk, using either symlinks or hardlinks to avoid duplicating large content files:
Create a Bag directory with a subdirectory called
data.In the
datasubdirectory, add hardlinks or symlinks to the content files.- Using the BagIt library, create a
PreBagobject and call themakeBagInPlacemethod to write the manifest files required by the BagIt specification.
makebag.java
import java.io.File
import gov.loc.repository.bagit.Bag;
import gov.loc.repository.bagit.BagFactory;
import gov.loc.repository.bagit.PreBag;
/** Read a directory on disk with files in a data/ subdirectory and create a valid bag. */
public class makebag {
public static void main( String[] args ) {
File bagdir = new File(args[0]);
PreBag preBag = new BagFactory().createPreBag(bagdir);
Bag bag = preBag.makeBagInPlace(BagFactory.LATEST, false);
}
}
