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Welcome to DART

DART is the Digital Archivist's Resource Tool. It provides both a GUI and a command-line interface for packaging files and uploading them to remote repositories.

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Updated Oct 28, 2025

Download the DART 3 installer for your system. The current version is alpha-03 (released June 6, 2025).

Double-click the installer after download and follow the prompts on screen.

For DART Runner, see DART Runner Downloads

After installation, check out the Getting Started page

Supported Operations

The current release of DART 3 supports the following features:

  • Creating BagIt bags that conform to defined BagIt profiles
  • Validating BagIt bags according to defined BagIt profiles
  • Uploading bags and other files to remote S3 and SFTP endpoints
  • Creating, validating and uploading bags in loose, tar, and gzip formats
  • Creating and modifying BagIt profiles through a visual point-and-click editor
  • Defining repeatable Workflows for bagging and uploading files
  • BagIt Profile import and export
  • Settings import and export
  • Workflow export
  • Saving an exporting local copies of artifacts from bagging jobs, including manifests, tag files, and job results
  • Read-only integration with the APTrust's REST API to display the status of ingested materials and pending work items

To start using DART, see our Getting Started page.

Note

Unlike DART 2, DART 3 does not support command-line operations. While DART 2 created and ran jobs and workflows, DART 3 creates jobs and workflows and then uses DART Runner under the hood to run them. If you wish to run command-line jobs and workflows, see DART Runner.

DART User Group

APTrust hosts a DART User Group for the entire digital preservation community. This group will primarily be a mailing list, where users can share experiences, ask questions, and support one another. Depending on the level of interest and engagement, we may expand this initiative to include regular virtual meetings and more structured activities in the future.

Note that the video links below currently show the DART 2 interface, but features apply to DART 3 as well.

Getting Started with DART

DART source code on GitHub

Video: Jobs and Workflows

Video: BagIt Profiles in DART

Video: Settings Import and Export

Credits

Brace yourselves gentlemen. According to the gas chromatograph, the secret ingredient is... Love!?

Who's been screwing with this thing?