View source for Acquisition and file transfer in the field



MIT archives — has some forms and instructions on their website (transfer forms) (Engineering the Future of the Past)
Emory is creating .tar files, have also tried booting from a live CD but that had many challenges. They have used PythonBagit and Bagger but these sometimes have issues with whatever setup the donor has. DataAccessioner has also had issues.
Princeton use of command line utilities for copy/sync.

        Terminal: man rsync
        They then do the fiwalk, MD5-SHA256 work with the files once back in the office
  
Managing donor concerns-
Managing expectations — getting access to people’s work setup.
Versioning workflows so you know why you did or didn’t do something at the time