ArchivesSpace Member Forum 2016
Thank you to all who joined us for this year's Member Forum. This page will be updated over the next week with presentations and other information from the sessions. Feel free to comment or add your own notes!
Date: August 2, 2016
Location: Robert W. Woodruff Library at the Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, GA
(thank you to ArchivesSpace Member Atlanta University Center for making space for us and for all their help in making this event happen!)
Planning Committee
Martha Conway, University of Michigan
Alex Duryee, New York Public Library
Linda Hocking, Litchfield Historical Society
Jason Loeffler, American Academy of Rome
Jaime Margalotti, University of Delaware
Jenny Mitchell, Louisiana State University
Francesca Pitaro, AP Corporate Archives
Adrienne Pruitt, Tufts University
Elizabeth Russell, University of Maine
Mariella Soprano, Caltech
Christine Di Bella, ArchivesSpace
Logistical support: Alicia Johnson, Iris Andrews, Erica Waller, Jennifer Bielewski, Jonathan Robinson, and Kenna Juliani, LYRASIS
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Schedule
Morning Program
Workshop presentation
Time | Workshop | Instructor | Presentations/Notes |
9:00 a.m. to noon | Creating and Managing Digital Objects in ArchivesSpace
| Brad Westbrook (ArchivesSpace) Nancy Enneking (Getty Research Institute)
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9:00 a.m. to noon | Introducing the ArchivesSpace REST API using Python 3
| R.S. Doiel (Caltech) | |
9:00 a.m. to noon | Developing Simple Plug-ins to Customize Your ArchivesSpace Experience
| Kevin Clair (University of Denver) |
Afternoon Program
Time | Activity | Speakers | Presentations/Notes |
1:00-1:10 p.m. | Welcome | Christine Di Bella (ArchivesSpace) |
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1:10-1:25 p.m. | Governance Board Update | Christian Dupont (Boston College) | |
1:25-1:40 p.m. | Program Update | Brad Westbrook (ArchivesSpace) | |
1:40-2:00 p.m. | Q&A from audience
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2:10-3:25 p.m. | Concurrent session block 1 |
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| ArchivesSpace Integrations – A Status Report and Look Ahead | Dallas Pillen (University of Michigan), Dustin Stokes (Atlas Systems), Jack O'Sullivan and Martin Springell (Preservica) |
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| Managing Containers and Locations in ArchivesSpace: A Look at Newly Added Functionality | Mary Caldera (Yale University), Rachel Searcy (New York University) Chair: Martha Conway (University of Michigan) |
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| Getting Involved in the ArchivesSpace Community | Sally Vermaaten (New York University), Gordon Daines (Brigham Young University), Christian Dupont (Boston College) | |
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3:35-4:50 p.m. | Concurrent session block 2 |
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| Working with a Hosting Provider | John Herbert (LYRASIS), Dan Specht (Atlas Systems) Chair: Elizabeth Russell (University of Maine) | Information about LYRASIS ArchivesSpace services Information about Atlas ArchivesSpace services
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| Data Cleanup Strategies and Tools | Kate Bowers (Harvard), Dave Mayo (Harvard), Marcus Ladd (Miami University), Jacky Johnson (Miami University) Chair: Jennifer Mitchell (Louisiana State University) | Bowers and Mayo presentation and background information
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| How Does ArchivesSpace Work for You? | Joshua Shaw (Dartmouth College): We found that the ArchivesSpace staff search interface wasn’t as useful for discovery purposes as it might be, especially for our public services people. Here’s what we changed and added and an overview of how we did it. I’ll also talk briefly about some of the other customizations and integrations we’ve made, as well as our (early!) plans for a basic circulation plugin.
Laurel McPhee (University of California San Diego): If you’ve ever wanted to view and play with all of your collection data—from every ArchivesSpace table—in Access or Excel, an ODBC connection is the solution for you. Learn how to set up this one-way connection and query your way to easy reports and a greater understanding of your database. Sarah Tanner (Atlanta University Center)
Mark Custer (Yale University) Lora Davis (Johns Hopkins University): The ArchivesSpace team at Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries used its spring 2016 migration from the Archivists’ Toolkit as an opportunity to clean up and resolve longstanding issues with existing descriptive metadata. Lora Davis will talk about the team’s work on one such project – cleaning and converting existing LCSH subject tracings to FAST headings using, among other things, the ArchivesSpace API, MS Access, OpenRefine, and Python scripts. Cyndi Shein and Carlos Lemus (UNLV Libraries Special Collections): Supporting Implementation of ArchivesSpace through Plugins: Given the diversity of our legacy data at UNLV, for us to efficiently implement ArchivesSpace (even at a basic level), we need extend its functionalities. Therefore, we’re locally developing and using plugins to customize reports, import and overlay authority records in the agent module, batch spawn resources from accession records, and customize PDF exports. Chair: Jaime Margalotti (University of Delaware) | |
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4:50-5:00 p.m. | Closing |
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