Please use this wiki page to let us know about examples of effective uses of ArchivesSpace, poor uses of ArchivesSpace (or poor experiences within it), and desirable experiences from other products you have encountered. Please include direct links to examples, as well as specific details about why the example is in this list.
Good ArchivesSpace experiences
- The ability to "not" publish things to the PUI at a very granular level (more detail / examples so that we can turn this request into user stories)
Poor ArchivesSpace experiences
- Jargon such as "Digital Objects", "Accessions", "Classifications". I don't think folks outside of the archives/ library professional sphere know what this means. For example in the military, "Classification" means something entirely different. (yes, we need sensible defaults in ALL of these categories!)
Desirable user experience examples
- Librarything shows a great example of discovery of materials (in this case books) through authors. The authors names are not regularized which bothers me but I think ASpace could leverage this functionality with the "names". https://www.librarything.com/author/rowlingjk
- BBC programmes uses linked data and has a slick search interface. I like the use of the word "categories" instead of "classification" in other words they limit the jargon. It's very visual to the point of being a bit busy but I think some degree of using images is important with so much visual media in archives. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes Look at the examples below the search bar to get a full idea of the capability for showing dates, etc.
- Princeton and BYU finding aid sites provide different approaches to component-level displays with contextual browsing, allowing users to directly access component descriptions while still being able to see what materials surround a particular folder or item in a collection. http://findingaids.princeton.edu and http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu
- NYPL: As far as the single-scroll view of finding aids go (here's an example: http://archives.nypl.org/mss/22833#detailed), I think they have one of the best. They also have a great landing page: http://archives.nypl.org/ (and a whole host of other things like to like, including the URL structures)
- Rockefeller Archive Center: http://dimes.rockarch.org/xtf/search Great implementation of the XTF bookbag feature. Also note that they provide a lot of useful information to researchers, like access restrictions notes, directly in the search result screens.
- Archives Portal Europe: https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/. The scale alone is impressive. Also note the lazy-loading context trees.
- Princeton Theological Seminary: I like the data visualization touches that they've added by doing entity recognition on the narratives in the description. Here's an example: http://manuscripts.ptsem.edu/collection/32 Also, they have a nice way to view by locations, http://manuscripts.ptsem.edu/?map=true, and searching works well (including highlighted text, etc.).
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