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Implementing ¡®Describing archives in 
context: a guide to Australasian 
practice¡¯ in AtoM 
The SROWA experimentence
AtoM Standards 
ISAD(G) 
?General International Standard Archival Description. Second Edition 
(2000) 
ISAAR(CPF) 
?International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate 
Bodies, Persons and Families. Second Edition (2004) 
ISDIAH 
?International Standard For Describing Institutions with Archival 
Holdings. First edition (March 2008). 
ISDF 
?International Standard For Description of Functions. First edition 
(May 2007).
Open Source
One system to rule them all
Other standards and practices 
supported by AtoM 
? RAD 
? EAD 
? Dublin Core metadata element set 
? MODS /MARC 
? But where does the Australian Series 
Registration System fit?
Other AtoM users
ISAD (G) template applied in AtoM 
Elements of description 
? Identity area 
? Context area 
? Content and structure area 
? Conditions of access and use area 
? Allied materials area 
? Notes area 
? Description control area
AtoM entities
Australian Series Registration system 
entities
What we¡¯ve done
Item template 
Fields for item description 
Identity 
level of description ¡Ì 
identifier - free text ¡Ì 
Title ¡Ì 
Accumulation Date ¡Ì 
Conditions of access and use area 
Conditions governing access using 
drop down list ¡Ì 
Conditions governing reproduction ¡Ì 
Private note (supressed name, dob 
etc) ¡Ì 
if 
required 
Existence and location of copies ¡Ì 
Administration area 
Publication status ¡Ì
Item requests 
Retrievals and government loans 
? Online requests 
Registered researchers - search room or 
after hours 
Government users ¨C search room, standard 
government loan or 7 day loan 
Staff ¨C all of the above and items to be used 
at staff desks, external exhibitions, in house 
displays and conservation. 
? Offline requests 
Phone, search room casual users 
Archive notes
New reports
¡®Describing archives in context: open source and the SROWA
www.accesstomemory.org 
Google groups ¨C ICA AtoM 
SRO.GAIARESOURCES.COM.AU
www.archivematica.org

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¡®Describing archives in context: open source and the SROWA

  • 1. Implementing ¡®Describing archives in context: a guide to Australasian practice¡¯ in AtoM The SROWA experimentence
  • 2. AtoM Standards ISAD(G) ?General International Standard Archival Description. Second Edition (2000) ISAAR(CPF) ?International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families. Second Edition (2004) ISDIAH ?International Standard For Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings. First edition (March 2008). ISDF ?International Standard For Description of Functions. First edition (May 2007).
  • 4. One system to rule them all
  • 5. Other standards and practices supported by AtoM ? RAD ? EAD ? Dublin Core metadata element set ? MODS /MARC ? But where does the Australian Series Registration System fit?
  • 7. ISAD (G) template applied in AtoM Elements of description ? Identity area ? Context area ? Content and structure area ? Conditions of access and use area ? Allied materials area ? Notes area ? Description control area
  • 11. Item template Fields for item description Identity level of description ¡Ì identifier - free text ¡Ì Title ¡Ì Accumulation Date ¡Ì Conditions of access and use area Conditions governing access using drop down list ¡Ì Conditions governing reproduction ¡Ì Private note (supressed name, dob etc) ¡Ì if required Existence and location of copies ¡Ì Administration area Publication status ¡Ì
  • 12. Item requests Retrievals and government loans ? Online requests Registered researchers - search room or after hours Government users ¨C search room, standard government loan or 7 day loan Staff ¨C all of the above and items to be used at staff desks, external exhibitions, in house displays and conservation. ? Offline requests Phone, search room casual users Archive notes
  • 15. www.accesstomemory.org Google groups ¨C ICA AtoM SRO.GAIARESOURCES.COM.AU

Editor's Notes

  • #4: Quick overview (and refresher for others) AtoM is developed by Canadian company, Artefactual for ICA. Open source ¨C means we, and developers, have access to source code and documentation. Plus any changes we make, may be added into the base code or as an option for others to use. Strong community of interest.
  • #5: AtoM is single system, unlike BOS and AEON, so access will be determined by user level. This training session you will log on as government staff (e.g. Records managers and delegates for gov loans). Probably leave SIMS at this level, but will enable Martin? (for reports) and Jess ? (for exhibitions) as contributors ¨C next level up. In addition to
  • #10: The principles of the Australian Series system description requires at least two descriptive entities. 1 A recordkeeping or record content entity 2 The context (agent or function) entity. The record and context areas are to be maintained independently and the relationship linkages should be used to connect related record and contextual descriptions at particular points of time and over time. 1. Context Control, which is achieved by the identification and registration of records creating and other ambient entities and the documentation of the administrative and biographical histories of those entities, their functional responsibilities and their relationships with each other and with the recordkeeping systems they maintain(ed); and 2. Records Control, which is achieved by the identification, registration and documentation of record series and/or the items that make up those series.
  • #13: In addition to Series Registration modification, we have developed an on-line loans module. And¡­
  • #14: A series of reports (AtoM basic reports leave much to the imagination)