{"id":2556,"date":"2011-11-11T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/11\/archivesspace\/"},"modified":"2011-11-11T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T14:58:00","slug":"archivesspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/11\/archivesspace\/","title":{"rendered":"ArchivesSpace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Digital Project Demonstration by Katherine Kott<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The ArchivesSpace community is building an open-source web application to manage descriptive information for archives, manuscripts, and digital objects, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes on the ArchivesSpace demonstration at the Center for Jewish History&rsquo;s \u201cFrom Access to Integration\u201d conference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Objective of ArchivesSpace: To build a \u201cnext generation\u201d archives management tool<\/p>\n<p>(A community effort, led by the libraries of New York University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of California, San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>During the presentation, Katherine Kott identifies the need for improved digital object management; more scalable solutions; and the opportunity to consolidate platforms.<\/p>\n<p>She suggests ways to meet these needs: designing and developing software using a flexible technology framework; including digital objects in data models; including functionality of both Archivists\u2019 Toolkit and Archon; attaching the product to an existing \u201corganizational home\u201d (which can provide access to both a standalone version of software for archives of all types and sizes, and a version for consortia, or large institutions, to host on behalf of their constituencies. \u201corganizational home\u201d can also facilitate ongoing maintenance and enhancements, including community contributions)<\/p>\n<p>Goal: To sustain an open-source community<br \/>Starting development in January 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Members of team: steering committee; technical architect; development manager; archivists; senior software developer; build\/release management team; migration facilitators; end-user and systems documentation specialist; developer<\/p>\n<p>Implications for integration of information about the Jewish experience:<\/p>\n<p>Flexible support for varied archival workflows; compliance with standards allows for descriptive metadata export for aggregation (building websites that link disparate collections); Multi-tenant solutions (if several small organizations want to get together to run an instance of ArchivesSpace, that would also be possible)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archivesspace.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.archivesspace.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/archivesspace\/\" target=\"_blank\">groups.google.com\/group\/archivesspace\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can volunteer to do beta testing! And there are other ways to get involved: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archivesspace.org\/get-involved\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.archivesspace.org\/get-involved\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the conversation: \u00a0 #cjh-a2i<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Project Demonstration by Katherine Kott The ArchivesSpace community is building an open-source web application to manage descriptive information for archives, manuscripts, and digital objects, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 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