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and looking at how this information is stored and built into the business workflow.

'md5sum' could also be used through [Cygwin|http://www.cygwin.com/] command line on a Windows environment to provide (for free) checksums of files.  This could be used in combination with 'find' and 'xargs' to generate a manifest.

It may also be worthwhile considering BagIt [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BagIt] which enables a separation between the data to be manifested and the manifest (metadata) itself whilst maintaining a link between these files.

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