ArchivesSpace - Scott Renton, University of Edinburgh
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ArchivesSpace - Scott Renton, University of Edinburgh. This presentation was part of Repository Fringe 2014, which took place from 30th to 31st July 2014 in Edinburgh.
ArchivesSpace - Scott Renton, University of Edinburgh
- 1. ~ a new tool for archives management~ ~a new tool for archives management~ S COT T RENTON, L IBRARY DIGI TAL DEVELOPMENT UNIVERS I TY OF EDINBURGH JULY 201 4
- 2. Archives at Edinburgh ? Part of Centre for Research Collections ? Categorised under Special Collections & Archives ? Wide and Varied Selection of Archives ? Laing Archive ? ECA Archive ? Carmichael Watson Archive ? Roslin Archive ? Godfrey Thomson¡¯s Psychology ? Lothian Health Services Archive
- 3. Edinburgh College of Art Archive ? Includes Sean Connery¡¯s life modelling contract ? Don¡¯t believe it? EU3153 A.Fairweather, Sean Connery as a Life Model, 1952
- 4. Current Management ? Standard ISAD(G), Schema EAD (XML) ? Laid down by GASHE and NAHSTE projects ? CMSyst: in-house built MySQL/PHP application ? Data feeds Archives Hub, ARCHON, CW site (EDINA)
- 6. Archivists¡¯ Toolkit ? Predecessor to ArchivesSpace, and trialled extensively ? Structured to work with EAD, ISAD(G) standards ? MySQL database ? Good authorities control ? No front end!
- 7. ArchivesSpace ? All archivist functionality in one place ? Web delivered ? Open Source ? Lyrasis network
- 8. Infrastructure ? MySQL database ? Runs under Web Server (often Jetty, but we use Tomcat) ? Code developed in JRuby, available Open Source through github ? Four webapps: ? Public front end ? Admin area ? Backend (communicator) ? SOLR
- 9. Migration ? Data all available from CMSyst ? Exported in EAD ? Some obstacles getting EAD to map correctly to loaded authorities using application ? Some obstacles getting Authorities to map to ArchivesSpace table structure in JSON load
- 10. Digital Objects ? ArchivesSpace has functionality to link out to illustrative digital objects- LUNA system ? CSV Import of data
- 11. Uptake ? Popular in America ? We are the first European institution to take it ? Charter Members (54) executive ? General Members (100+) can contribute ? Include Auckland and Hong Kong now
- 12. collections.ed ? ArchivesSpace will effectively be the expression of archives within ? Need to brand seamlessly through CSS ? Need to surface Archives as CLDs ? 1000s of collections
- 13. Collaborative Project ? Good training delivered to Archivists ? Curators, archivists, projects and innovations staff and digital developers all involved ? User manual collaboratively composed ? Good collaboration with other institutions- ArchivesSpace list is lively¡ ? Interns
- 14. Next Steps ? Conferences in Madrid and Newcastle ? Sister application for museums- CollectionSpace
- 15. Further Info ? Coming soon: http://collections.ed.ac.uk/archives ? Our collections portal: http://collections.ed.ac.uk ? ArchivesSpace site: http://www.archivesspace.org/ ? ArchivesSpace code: https://github.com/hudmol/archivesspace ? Gateway to Scottish Higher Education: http://www.gashe.ac.uk/ ? Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology and the Environment: http://www.nahste.ac.uk/ ? Carmichael Watson website: http://www.carmichaelwatson.lib.ed.ac.uk ? Towards Dolly website: http://www.archives.lib.ed.ac.uk/towardsdolly/ ? LHSA website: http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk ? ARCHON: http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/ ? Archives Hub: http://archiveshub.ac.uk/ ? Images Online at University of Edinburgh: http://images.is.ed.ac.uk ? Our contact: lddt@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk