About
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Exactly is a free and open source application that is easy-to-use for remotely and safely transferring any digital data from a sender to a recipient.
One of our most popular applications, Exactly allows recipients to create customized metadata templates for senders to fill out before submission. Exactly can send email notifications with transfer data and manifests when files have been delivered to the archive.
Safe Data
Transfers
Open
Source
Data
Validation
Email
Notifications
Built on Standards
For data integrity Exactly utilizes the BagIt File Packaging Format, an Internet Engineering Task-Force standard developed by the Library of Congress and the California Digital Library with support from George Washington University and the University of Maryland. Exactly supports SFTP/FTP transfer, as well as standard network transfers, and integrates into desktop-based file sharing workflows such as Dropbox or Google Drive.
Building on work began by the Gates Archive, AVP and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries developed Exactly to meet the growing need for archives to acquire digital content directly from donors and to begin the activities of establishing provenance and fixity early in the process of acquisition.
Although Exactly was developed with this use-case in mind, the application can be used in any circumstance where there is the need to securely send and receive data.
How the Nunn Center is using Exactly
