03. Introduction to Workflow

03. Introduction to Workflow

Assumptions

  • User has content to upload to Avalon

  • User wants to perform digital preservation on this content and store in archival storage

  • User would like to use Archivematica workflow to do so

  • Archivematica pipeline might have other purposes besides Avalon workflows

  • User is working with Archivematica 1.9+

  • User is working with Avalon Media System 6.4+

  • Archivematica’s role is to process access intended for long-term digital preservation and create service-independent AIPs for preservation storage.

  • Avalon’s role is to ingest and make available media assets, including the presentation of existing metadata and hierarchical information.

 

Ingest Workflow Diagram

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Installation/Setup (Systems administrator work)

 

Installation of Archivematica for production can be found here:

https://www.archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.9/admin-manual/installation-setup/installation/installation/#installation

Installation of Automation-tools can be found here:

https://github.com/artefactual/automation-tools

Installation of Avalon can be found here:

https://www.avalonmediasystem.org/documentation