Translations:Digitization, Preservation and Ingest/231/en

Many things can go wrong with digital files as they are created, managed, and stored before they reach the point of ingest. During digitization, due to an error or a virus, files can be damaged, made incomplete, or reduced in quality. It is therefore a good practice to perform as comprehensive a quality check of all our digital files as possible before their ingest and archiving. There is a whole set of tools that perform either specific or a group of quality control actions. Some examples include NARA’s File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester, which has a range of functions, or, on the other side of the spectrum, a highly designed “Fingerdet,” which helps detect fingerprints on digitized items.