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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Concurrent Sessions
1:00-2:15 How to Get Getting Involved in the ArchivesSpace Community/Ask an Expert
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.
1:00-2:15 Better Collection Control with ArchivesSpace
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
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.
2:25-3:40 Reports and Report Workarounds
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).
3:40-4:00 BREAK
Final Updates and Ideas for Everyone
4:00-5:00 Lightning Round - ArchivesSpace Tips, Tricks, and Ideas
Alexis Antracoli, Princeton University; Lisa Calahan, University of Minnesota; Alexandra Orchard, Wayne State University; Devon Proudfoot, University of Michigan
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