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Checksums are another aspect of data that is often used in archiving. It is also helpful to employ and adapt to your FirstVoices project. To use checksums, you will need to download and install additional software, and we recommend BWF - MetaEdit.
Checksums are bits of data that tell you if there have been changes in your file. These changes occur for many reasons including just naturally over time.
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One important step in using checksums is the review and monitoring of changes. It will be important to establish a procedure and schedule to use BWF - MetaEdit on your files again to check on these files. The software will also tell you if there have been changes to the files’ checksums if they have already been embedded.
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