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It’s really great how you’ve been able to get such detailed information on the state of their collections and practices.
Great work identifying key next steps. Good call on recommending AVpreserve’s fixity tool. It’s a really great resource and I think it could be particularly useful in this context. It strikes me that their submission process could be a perfect place to make use of AVpreserve’s open source tool Exactly https://www.avpreserve.com/tools/exactly/ it’s created for exactly this kind of submission process situation and is a good bit easier to use then bagger.