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Let's talk about:

New Community Events and Resources!

• The new ArchivesSpace small archives listserv

  • http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/archivesspace_small_archives_users_group

• The new Integrations with ArchivesSpace webinar series

  • https://archivesspace.org/archives/5661

  • Integration with Preservica is the first webinar in the series and is scheduled for October 1st at 2pm ET

    • https://archivesspace.org/archives/5663

• Webinar: Introducing the PBCore Plug-In, September 26 at 2pm ET

  • https://archivesspace.org/archives/5645

• Webinar: Batch Posting Barcodes in ArchivesSpace, October 23 at 2pm ET

  • More details soon

• The Southeast Regional Member Forum will be November 15th at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC.

  • Today is the last day to volunteer to be part of the working group for the event. Email Jessica at Jessica.crouch@lyrasis.org to volunteer!
    

Jessica Crouch

Can you help me with:

As a real newbie to ArchivesSpace, it would be really interesting to know whether there are any good sources to look at about overall decisions institutions have made about how they use ArchivesSpace- eg when to use assessments; when to use events. The system is so flexible I can see there are a number of different ways to use it to manage your collection.

• Jessica is creating a resource page for new ArchivesSpace users with documentation to help get started and facilitate informed decision making within ArchivesSpace.

  • Requested resources to includedinclude

    • Examples of local documentation and decision making from other ArchivesSpace users

    • Rachel Searcy volunteered their lib guide: https://guides.nyu.edu/archivesspace

    • Forum videos and Webinars, including videos from the Online Forum with March: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/802127927/ArchivesSpace+Online+Forum+2019

    • Community generated Awesome ArchivesSpace: https://github.com/archivesspace/awesome-archivesspace

• Kevin Clair, chair of the user documentation sub-team, discussed there the new ArchivesSpace User Manual. This new manual will be house on in Confluence and will allow for better editing and maintenance by the user doc User Doc sub-team.

  • Better explanation of user permission groups within manual was requested.

  • A way to export the user manual to print was also requested

Natalie Adams, Cambridge University Library

I’d be interested to understand more about the background to the difference between archival objects and resources- specifically why you can add user-defined fields to resource records but not to archival objects. Wondered if this was something to do with Archivist's Toolkit.

• Christine Di Bella provided explanation about some background on the original development of ArchivesSpace and suggested there could always be changes made . There is opportunity to suggest changes to the application by submitting a JIRA ticketJIRA tickets. It is most valuable to offer use cases and demonstrate community interest by getting discussion going among users.

  • How to request a new feature: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/19202060/How+to+Request+a+New+Feature

• A There was discussion about pdf generation was held and the desire for both pdfs at the archival object level and for accession records was expressed. These could also be requested via JIRA: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/19202060/How+to+Request+a+New+Feature

  • Noah Huffman shared a plugin to print accession records from the browser: https://github.com/YaleArchivesSpace/print

• There is considerable intersection interest in linking accession records to Archival Objects. A JIRA already exists: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-287

Natalie Adams, Cambridge University Library

We're looking at ways to add digital objects to finding aids and we're interesting in seeing how other institutions are doing it.

• Seth Shaw presented on getting CONTENTdm digital object records into ArchivesSpace last year at the Members Forum. https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/634650626/ArchivesSpace+Member+Forum+2018

Kimberly Gianfrancesco, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

I have an idea!

Moving instances between Resources/Archival Objects using drag and drop

• How to request a new feature: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/19202060/How+to+Request+a+New+Feature

Kate Telford, Rhode Island State Archives

Updating files using the csv download and then upload that same csv file to make bulk changes

• There was specific interest in the meeting about making bulk edits to container lists.

• Kevin Clair, Rachel Searcy and Noah Huffman all discussed individual projects they are working on to make bulk editing easier within ArchivesSpace. They and Christine Di Bella agreed to meet about a potential working group to combine their initiatives.

• There was also interest in the ability to make bulk edit edits to Archival Objects in RDE.

Kate Telford, Rhode Island State Archives

Other topics, on the fly!

A requested update on the merger of LYRASIS and Duraspace

• Christine Di Bella gave the update. LYRASIS and Duraspace are now one organization and ArchivesSpace operates in a division with the former Duraspace applications, including DSpace. We hope this new division will create opportunities for growth and partnership.