Your Ultimate Media Archiving Solution
Streamline the archiving process with SmartBag, an archive file format, based on the Library of Congress’ BagIt Open Source, and designed for efficient storage and transfer of complex media assets.
This digital “bag” format allows further monetization of content otherwise sitting on physical shelves unused. Once bagged it’s easily discoverable and packaged content with AI and Machine Learning. Leverage AI and ML to analyze, categorize, and optimize your assets.
Portability and Data Integrity of Legacy Archives
File Validation and Hierarchical Archiving
Organize and store archives of data in a wide variety of formats. Allowing you to save hierarchical data: whether it’s parent-child relationships or tree structures of media assets and marketing materials.
AI/ ML
Categorization
Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning easily maximize your valuable assets by making them accessible, easily searchable, and systemized.
Highlights
Leveraging Library of Congress technology for maximum reliability, widely used in digital library and archival contexts
Searchable, customizable, analyzable, and adaptive to your specific needs
Bag large files or groups of any size
- Drives – DVD-R, BD-R, USB/Firewire Drives, LTO, Private Cloud
- Archives – where file/folder structure contain context of material (i.e., marketing campaigns, EPKs, VAM, dailies)
- Project/Session Archives – Edit (Avid, Premiere), Sound/Mixing (Stems/ProTools), Graphics and VFX Comps, Grading Sessions
- Complex Media Assets – Image Seq., DCP, DAMF, IMF
5 Components for Ensuring Data Integrity
- Data Directory – Core & Actual files and directories being archived
- Manifest Files – File list and checksums for the entirety of the data & directory
- Bag Info File – Optional file named bag.info.txt containing jkey value pairs that provide metadata about the bag
- Bag Declaration File – Defined versions of specifications used and character encoding used for metadata files
- Tag Manifest Files – Checksum values for the metadata and manifest files
A Comprehensive Solution
Whether it’s handling single complex assets or large groups of files, SmartBag offers a complete digital archiving solution that ensures security, scalability, and ease of use.