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-# rosettaExitStrategy
+rosettaExitStrategy
+===================
+
+This script processes a '/permanent'-directory of an ExLibris Rosetta digital
+longterm archive system and parses the metadata in AIP-packages and builds a
+database to find AIPs and associated metadata independently from the Exlibris
+Rosetta system.
+
+The script scans a given repository and creates an SQL script to create a
+database.
+
+This is part of the exit-strategy, for details, see asciidoc file
+'doc/exit_strategie.asciidoc' (also contains ER-diagram for database)
+
+file was tested with postgres-database sucessfully
+
+using:
+[source,bash]
+--------------------------------------------------------
+$> psql -U romeyke -d exit_strategy \
+   -f rosetta_exit_strategy/tmp.sql -L rosetta_exit.log
+--------------------------------------------------------
+