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Now in its third year, the annual 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. 

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• Instructor: Lora Woodford, Johns Hopkins University
• Have you ever heard the phrase, "Use the API for that!" and wished you actually could? This workshop will familiarize participants with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in general, and illustrate salient points with a deep dive into the ArchivesSpace API in particular. After presenting a brief history of APIs, participants will be led through several hands-on exercises illustrating how APIs can aid you in your archival work. This workshop is intended for novice users of web applications with APIs (such as ArchivesSpace). No command line or programming experience is necessary.
• Share your API Workshop notes
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1:00-3:40 Workshop: Rolling Out the New Public User Interface with Staff and Researchers (pre-registration required)

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• Speakers: ArchivesSpace Program Staff and Advisory Council Members
• Are you wondering where to start with ArchivesSpace? Get oriented to the different groups leading ArchivesSpace activities and the tools we use to share and communicate. Get your questions about the community and the application answered by power users. This session may be especially useful for those new to the ArchivesSpace community, but all are welcome to join, to either ask or answer questions. 
• Share your session notes
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1:00-2:15 Better Collection Control with ArchivesSpace

• 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.
• Share your session notes

2:25-3:40 Migration and Data Cleanup

• Speakers: Benn Joseph, Northwestern University; Miloche Kottman, University of Kansas; Caitlin Wells, University of Michigan
• Come learn about different projects and workflows people have undertaken to migrate their data to ArchivesSpace and clean it up once it's there. Speakers will address Archon and PastPerfect migrations, and a project to cleanup subject and agent records for better authority control.
• Share your session notes
• Presentation: Benn Joseph
• Presentation: Miloche Kottman
• Presentation: Caitlin Wells

2:25-3:40 Reports and Report Workarounds

• Speakers: Nancy Enneking, Getty Research Institute; Laney McGlohon, ArchivesSpace
• Join two people who have been deeply engaged with the reports functionality of ArchivesSpace in this 75-minute session covering functionality available in the current release, a discussion of the process through which the reports are being revised, and a preview of coming functionality (~20 min); a  brief demonstration of other methods of extracting data from the system (establishing an ODBC connection to connect external reporting tools) and a few things to know about the tables (~30 min); and a group discussion on how the existing reports are working and what else the participants would like to see in terms of core functionality, additional canned reports, etc.. (~20 min).
• Share your session notes
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Accessibility and Accommodations

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