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Creating and Managing Digital Object Records in ArchivesSpace - While ArchivesSpace is not a digital asset management system, it does provide functionality for creating and managing essential metadata for your digital materials, and to manage it in the same system as your physical collection materials. Learn more about the Digital Objects module of ArchivesSpace through instruction and hands-on exercises.
Using Introducing the ArchivesSpace REST API using Python 3 - While the ArchivesSpace staff interface gives you many options for creating and updating individual records, sometimes you want to do more. The ArchivesSpace Application Programming Interface (API) is a powerful tool that can help you update the value of a field across hundreds of records, change dozens of unpublished finding aids to published, delete unwanted location records in bulk, and export all of your EAD data for use in another system, among other things -- and and you don't have to be a developer to use it! Learn more about what it is, what it can do, and how to make it work for you. The workshop will present the basics of working with the ArchivesSpace REST API using Python (version 3). This includes authentication as well as creating, reading, updating, and deleting various types of ArchivesSpace objects (e.g. repositories, agents, accessions, and digital objects).
Developing Simple Plug-ins to Customize Your ArchivesSpace Experience - Would you like to change the colors in your public interface, modify the way a particular EAD tag imports, or add some basic, repository-specific functionality to your ArchivesSpace installation? Plugins may be the answer - and you don't have to be a programmer to build them. Learn In this workshop, learn more about the plugin architecture of ArchivesSpace and how archivists and developers can work together to build a simple pluginidentify, build, refine and improve plugins to make ArchivesSpace meet local needs.
Planned Sessions
How Does ArchivesSpace Work for You? (lightning round) – What have you found to make ArchivesSpace work especially well for you? Have you found an unusual or unexpected use for ArchivesSpace in your repository? Do you have workflows or data entry methods that streamline your work? Come share tips, tricks, and ideas!
Managing Containers and Locations in ArchivesSpace: A Look at Newly Added Functionality (traditional session) – – Thanks to development work sponsored by ArchivesSpace members Yale University and New York University the containers and locations areas of the application have been substantially revamped. Come learn more about what’s new and how to make it work for you.
ArchivesSpace Integrations – A Status Report and Look Ahead (traditional session) – – For many institutions, ArchivesSpace is just one of the systems used to manage and provide access to collection materials. Come learn about the status of specific system integrations with Archivematica, Aeon, and Preservica and how institutions are revamping their workflows to address work across their systems.
Data Cleanup Strategies and Tools (traditional session) – Working with legacy data, moving data from one system to another, reconciling data creation over time and different staff – all of these require some form of data cleanup. Learn about and share your strategies and favorite tools. They also typically involve significant discussion and planning, and often the creation of tools that facilitate getting the job done efficiently. Learn what worked (and, in some cases, didn’t work) for two institutions in preparing for ArchivesSpace, and get and share ideas about your own cleanup projects.