The ArchivesSpace Member Forum is a free event open to all staff from ArchivesSpace member institutions. Come to share and learn about experiences implementing, using, and developing for ArchivesSpace. We are currently planning the event and developing the program and look forward to sharing more information in the coming months. Please get in touch if you have ideas or would like to participate.
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Speakers: Maureen Callahan, Smith College; Alicia Detelich, Yale University; Rachel Searcy, New York University
ArchivesSpace is an “archives information management application,” and much more than a finding aid maker. The system includes a number of pieces of functionality - some original to the predecessor applications and others newly developed and incorporated into the core code - that support better collections control. In this session, we will (re-)introduce some of these features, share our use cases for applying them to real situations that impact the user experience, share ideas about how to remediate existing data to make it compatible with these functions, and start talking about a shared toolbox of fixes to help with issues that many of us have. We also want to hear your use cases, the challenges you are facing, and the solutions you might explore. We hope that this session will help empower users to look at this functionality and the system more broadly as a tool to work with in order to achieve the ultimate goals of improved collections care and increased accessibility. Make the system work for you, not the other way around.
2:15-2:25 BREAK
2:25-3:40 Migration and Data Cleanup
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Anything goes in this lightning round offering tips, tricks, and ideas for using ArchivesSpace. Hear what others have done and contribute your own thoughts and ideas.
5:00-5:30 Wrap Up
Post Forum Mixer
graciously co-hosted by Atlas Systems and LYRASIS, ArchivesSpace Registered Service Providers
Hilton Portland Downtown – Skyline Room, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Extend your conversations from the Member Forum, or, if you weren’t able to join us for the Forum, come for light food and drink and to catch up with other ArchivesSpace users as a warmup to your evening in Portland. An RSVP to christine.dibella@lyrasis.org from those not registered for the Forum is appreciated so that we are sure to have enough on hand.