SmartBag – Premiere Digital

Technology Efficiency Achievement Winner, SmartBag October 1, 2024

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

Simplify archive management and preservation of assets of a variety of soon-to-be dated technology and systems. SmartBag allows you to securely transfer data and ensure your assets are up-to-date.

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

Based on BagIt Technology

Leveraging Library of Congress technology for maximum reliability, widely used in digital library and archival contexts

AI/ML Categorization and Introspection

Searchable, customizable, analyzable, and adaptive to your specific needs

Versatile Compatibility

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

Integrated Components of A Bag

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. Download our one-sheet for more information.