An arrangement strategy is the strategy or process used to organize files into cohesive units for archiving, storage and preservation.

Discoverability is the ease of which users can find your collections and the items within them.

File arrangement refers to how digital files are organized, ordered, and grouped together in a digital environment such as on a personal hard drive or in a digital archive.

A flat (file) structure is one in which only one level of folders intervenes between the collection level and the media files.

A nested file structure is a file structure where a folder is in another folder, which may be in another folder, and so on

Self-archiving is when depositors do some or all of the work of ingesting their files into a digital repository and adding the metadata.

A zipped file is a computer file whose contents are compressed for the purposes of transmission or storage. These files often end in .ZIP.