2019-9-17 Meeting notes

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

• 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.

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.

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.

Kimberly Gianfrancesco, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

I have an idea!

Moving instances between Resources/Archival Objects using drag and drop

Kate Telford, Rhode Island State Archives

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

Kate Telford, Rhode Island State Archives

Other topics, on the fly!