Good morning,
We use Toast442.org's MD5, http://www.toast442.org/, to run our
checksums. It is free Windows software and works rather well from our
perspective. We have used it for about 3 years. All checksums
generated are kept in the folder containing the digital files and is
named so that we know exactly what it is for. In our case, we give
everything a batch number, so the checksum is saved using that
particular batch code. Should the data in folder change, a very rare
occurrence, the checksum would be run again.
Miriam
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>How many of you employ checksum files to verify digital copies over time? What checksum level do you use and, what do you do with the checksum files, do you keep them with the digital copies, elsewhere, etc?
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>Thank you.
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Miriam Meislik
Archivist/
Photograph Curator
Archives of Industrial Society
University of Pittsburgh
7500 Thomas Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
(412)244-7075 voice
(412)244-7077 fax
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http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/archives/archives.html
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh
http://images.library.pitt.edu/pghphotos
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.
--Steven Wright
