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This site documents contains the DANS BagIt Profile specifications. This is a document that specifies the requirements for a valid DANS bag. There are several versions of the document:

• v1.2.0 - CURRENT VERSION - the rules for the DANS Data Stations.
• v0.0.0 - the rules as used by the Legacy DANS EASY Archive system.

Archived versions:

• v1.0.0
• v1.1.0

The version numbers follow the semantic versioning scheme:

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

• MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
• MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner, and
• PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes.