Is it possible to create submission format that doesn’t require any attached files?

Question

Is it possible to create submission format that doesn’t require any attached files (i.e. for uploading metadata only with no associated file_streams)?

Answer

No.
This is more of a feature of a digital asset management system (adding metadata without associated files), not so much of a digital preservation system (i.e. Rosetta).
Rosetta requites a file of some sort (*.xml. *.pdf, *.mp3, etc.) in order to create an IE.
As per the Material Flows> Submission Formats section of the Rosetta Overview Guide: “Submission formats govern how Producer Agents upload files and what limitations are applied to the files…..”
Note that adding a ‘dummy’ file as a place holder (to 'fool' the system) with any extension except *.txt will likely fail validation because there would be no technical metadata to extract.

Category: Rosetta

Subject: SIP Loading - Rosetta

• Article last edited: 7/7/2014