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At the archive handoff (access file or package to FFV1/Matroska, BagIt and PREMIS/OAIS), what does each primary text guarantee, which package-level information has no home in the archive container, and which records must be written explicitly?

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Integrity checks work at different layers: FFV1 with ec=1 stores a CRC in every slice (MediaConch's sample digitisation policy requires per-slice CRCs), ffmpeg's framemd5/framehash hash decoded frames so two files can be compared by content, and a BagIt 'valid' result only says every manifest checksum matched the stored files. PREMIS 3.0 leaves which events to record to the repository and provides eventOutcome/eventOutcomeDetail for results, so validation outcomes are not automatic archive metadata. Matroska (RFC 9559) can flag hearing-impaired, visually-impaired and text-description tracks, so access roles have a place if a transcode step sets them; the LoC FFV1/Matroska page says timecode support is still in development, so DCP/IMF structure and timecode need separate records (no inspected source maps CPL reels/edit rate/KDM into Matroska). Curator qualifications: Specifications, pages and code read 2026-10-22; no file encoded, bagged, validated or transcoded. OAIS (CCSDS 650.0-M-3, 5.2 MB) and Archivematica AIP structure not reinspected. Whether common transcode tools set the Matroska access flags is untested. Limitations: Specifications, pages and code read 2026-10-22; no file encoded, bagged, validated or transcoded. Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8493.txt",
      "note": "RFC 9043 section 4.2.16 \"ec\" (lines 1728-1745); MediaConch sample_policy_4_mkv_ffv1_digitization.xml @93bd6874 line 9; ffmpeg-formats.html contents 4.40-4.42; RFC 8493 lines 270-277; RFC 9559 sections 5.1.4.1.7-5.1.4.1.9 (lines 1345-1371); LoC format description fdd000342 (FFV1 in Matroska), live 2026-10-22 (bytes differ from producer pin); [producer working copy; not public] sha256 2e3e3fe001798f3f (equal to producer pin S4); pdftotext lines 842, 881-884"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000342.shtml",
      "note": "RFC 9043 section 4.2.16 \"ec\" (lines 1728-1745); MediaConch sample_policy_4_mkv_ffv1_digitization.xml @93bd6874 line 9; ffmpeg-formats.html contents 4.40-4.42; RFC 8493 lines 270-277; RFC 9559 sections 5.1.4.1.7-5.1.4.1.9 (lines 1345-1371); LoC format description fdd000342 (FFV1 in Matroska), live 2026-10-22 (bytes differ from producer pin); [producer working copy; not public] sha256 2e3e3fe001798f3f (equal to producer pin S4); pdftotext lines 842, 881-884"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.13/user-manual/archival-storage/aip-structure",
      "note": "cited at https://archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.13/user-manual/archival-storage/aip-structure/; RFC 9043 section 4.2.16 \"ec\" (lines 1728-1745); MediaConch sample_policy_4_mkv_ffv1_digitization.xml @93bd6874 line 9; ffmpeg-formats.html contents 4.40-4.42; RFC 8493 lines 270-277; RFC 9559 sections 5.1.4.1.7-5.1.4.1.9 (lines 1345-1371); LoC format description fdd000342 (FFV1 in Matroska), live 2026-10-22 (bytes differ from producer pin); [producer working copy; not public] sha256 2e3e3fe001798f3f (equal to producer pin S4); pdftotext lines 842, 881-884"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaConch_SourceCode/blob/93bd68748f5f5d3c5fa32655ea43c83fad95c650/Tools/Policies/sample_policy_4_mkv_ffv1_digitization.xml",
      "note": "RFC 9043 section 4.2.16 \"ec\" (lines 1728-1745); MediaConch sample_policy_4_mkv_ffv1_digitization.xml @93bd6874 line 9; ffmpeg-formats.html contents 4.40-4.42; RFC 8493 lines 270-277; RFC 9559 sections 5.1.4.1.7-5.1.4.1.9 (lines 1345-1371); LoC format description fdd000342 (FFV1 in Matroska), live 2026-10-22 (bytes differ from producer pin); [producer working copy; not public] sha256 2e3e3fe001798f3f (equal to producer pin S4); pdftotext lines 842, 881-884"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html",
      "note": "RFC 9043 section 4.2.16 \"ec\" (lines 1728-1745); MediaConch sample_policy_4_mkv_ffv1_digitization.xml @93bd6874 line 9; ffmpeg-formats.html contents 4.40-4.42; RFC 8493 lines 270-277; RFC 9559 sections 5.1.4.1.7-5.1.4.1.9 (lines 1345-1371); LoC format description fdd000342 (FFV1 in Matroska), live 2026-10-22 (bytes differ from producer pin); [producer working copy; not public] sha256 2e3e3fe001798f3f (equal to producer pin S4); pdftotext lines 842, 881-884"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9043.txt",
      "note": "RFC 9043 section 4.2.16 \"ec\" (lines 1728-1745); MediaConch sample_policy_4_mkv_ffv1_digitization.xml @93bd6874 line 9; ffmpeg-formats.html contents 4.40-4.42; RFC 8493 lines 270-277; RFC 9559 sections 5.1.4.1.7-5.1.4.1.9 (lines 1345-1371); LoC format description fdd000342 (FFV1 in Matroska), live 2026-10-22 (bytes differ from producer pin); [producer working copy; not public] sha256 2e3e3fe001798f3f (equal to producer pin S4); pdftotext lines 842, 881-884"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9559.txt",
      "note": "RFC 9043 section 4.2.16 \"ec\" (lines 1728-1745); MediaConch sample_policy_4_mkv_ffv1_digitization.xml @93bd6874 line 9; ffmpeg-formats.html contents 4.40-4.42; RFC 8493 lines 270-277; RFC 9559 sections 5.1.4.1.7-5.1.4.1.9 (lines 1345-1371); LoC format description fdd000342 (FFV1 in Matroska), live 2026-10-22 (bytes differ from producer pin); [producer working copy; not public] sha256 2e3e3fe001798f3f (equal to producer pin S4); pdftotext lines 842, 881-884"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/v3/premis-3-0-final.pdf",
      "note": "RFC 9043 section 4.2.16 \"ec\" (lines 1728-1745); MediaConch sample_policy_4_mkv_ffv1_digitization.xml @93bd6874 line 9; ffmpeg-formats.html contents 4.40-4.42; RFC 8493 lines 270-277; RFC 9559 sections 5.1.4.1.7-5.1.4.1.9 (lines 1345-1371); LoC format description fdd000342 (FFV1 in Matroska), live 2026-10-22 (bytes differ from producer pin); [producer working copy; not public] sha256 2e3e3fe001798f3f (equal to producer pin S4); pdftotext lines 842, 881-884"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/650x0m3.pdf",
      "note": "RFC 9043 section 4.2.16 \"ec\" (lines 1728-1745); MediaConch sample_policy_4_mkv_ffv1_digitization.xml @93bd6874 line 9; ffmpeg-formats.html contents 4.40-4.42; RFC 8493 lines 270-277; RFC 9559 sections 5.1.4.1.7-5.1.4.1.9 (lines 1345-1371); LoC format description fdd000342 (FFV1 in Matroska), live 2026-10-22 (bytes differ from producer pin); [producer working copy; not public] sha256 2e3e3fe001798f3f (equal to producer pin S4); pdftotext lines 842, 881-884"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.13/user-manual/archival-storage/aip-structure/",
      "note": "observed URL (dated/alias form of the cited catalogue source; canonical identity retained)"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[inference] Integrity checks work at different layers: FFV1 with ec=1 stores a CRC in every slice (MediaConch's sample digitisation policy requires per-slice CRCs), ffmpeg's framemd5/framehash hash decoded frames so two files can be compared by content, and a BagIt 'valid' result only says every manifest checksum matched the stored files. PREMIS 3.0 leaves which events to record to the repository and provides eventOutcome/eventOutcomeDetail for results, so validation outcomes are not automatic archive metadata. Matroska (RFC 9559) can flag hearing-impaired, visually-impaired and text-description tracks, so access roles have a place if a transcode step sets them; the LoC FFV1/Matroska page says timecode support is still in development, so DCP/IMF structure and timecode need separate records (no inspected source maps CPL reels/edit rate/KDM into Matroska). · locator: RFC 9043 section 4.2.16 "ec" (lines 1728-1745); MediaConch sample_policy_4_mkv_ffv1_digitization.xml @93bd6874 line 9; ffmpeg-formats.html contents 4.40-4.42; RFC 8493 lines 270-277; RFC 9559 sections 5.1.4.1.7-5.1.4.1.9 (lines 1345-1371); LoC format description fdd000342 (FFV1 in Matroska), live 2026-10-22 (bytes differ from producer pin); [producer working copy; not public] sha256 2e3e3fe001798f3f (equal to producer pin S4); pdftotext lines 842, 881-884 source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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