TIPS: Tufts Ingest Prototype System
In order to support the work described in Ingest Projects, the Tufts project team developed a prototype ingest system which automates many steps of the ingest process. The system, known as the Tufts Ingest Prototype System (TIPS), allowed the project team to gain experience with the processes involved in production-scale ingests. The project team developed TIPS concurrently with the Ingest Guide, allowing theoretical knowledge and practical experience to inform the development of the Guide and the tool.
TIPS is available for use under the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1. Archives can use TIPS to execute many of the tasks described in Section B Transfer and Validation of the Ingest Guide. However, this is not a production-ready tool with a polished user interface. It is a developer-oriented tool that can help archives develop scalable transfer and validation workflows within an ingest system. Although the project team used TIPS with a Fedora-based repository, it is not a Fedora-specific tool.
Download TIPS (TIPS-alpha1.tar.gz)
This includes source code and documentation with most of the library dependencies.
Download TIPS (TIPS-alpha1-nolibs.tar.gz)
This includes source code and documentation without the library dependencies.