SUNScholar/Item Checksums

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Introduction

Ensuring checksums for digital objects is an important part of digital curation.

Configuration

Edit the following file:

nano $HOME/source/dspace/config/dspace.cfg

Search for checker.retention and modify accordingly.

See example below.

#### Checksum Checker Settings ####
# Default dispatcher in case none specified
plugin.single.org.dspace.checker.BitstreamDispatcher=org.dspace.checker.SimpleDispatcher

# check history retention
checker.retention.default=1y
checker.retention.CHECKSUM_MATCH=2w

Tips

• http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Optimisations

References

• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/Configuration+Reference#ConfigurationReference-ChecksumCheckerSettings
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/Validating+CheckSums+of+Bitstreams

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• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Configuration+Reference#ConfigurationReference-ChecksumCheckerSettings
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Validating+CheckSums+of+Bitstreams

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• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/Validating+CheckSums+of+Bitstreams