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The Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) specifications
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Action: Add clarification of handling of empty directories to spec #51

Closed ahankinson closed 5 years ago

ahankinson commented 6 years ago
  1. Need to figure out where it goes in the text
  2. Determine how we handle it. Follow the BagIt spec:

Payload manifests only include the pathnames of files. Because of this, a payload manifest cannot reference empty directories. To account for an empty directory, a bag creator may wish to include at least one file in that directory; it suffices, for example, to include a zero-length file named ".keep".

ahankinson commented 6 years ago

Decision: Editors Meeting 2018-08-15:

Follow BagIt and paraphrase the need to have non-empty directories with .keep files.

ahankinson commented 5 years ago

Note on empty directories will be added to Version directories section.