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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(please bring a laptop if you would like to participate in hands on activities; more information will be provided to workshop registrants closer to the time of the Forum)
1:00-3:40 Workshop: API for Archivists Introduction to Working with the ArchivesSpace API (pre-registration required)
Instructor: Lora Davis, 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 the Application Programming Interface Interfaces (API) for ArchivesSpace and how it 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 (including appraisal, accessioning, social media/web archiving, data cleanup, systems’ integrations, etc.). It . This workshop is intended for novice users of web applications with APIs (such as ArchivesSpace, Omeka, certain DAMS and repositories) and no ). No command line or programming experience is necessary.
1:00-3:40 Workshop: Rolling Out the New Public User Interface with Staff and Researchers (pre-registration required)
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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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