archivesspace - scott renton, university of edinburgh
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ArchivesSpace - Scott Renton, University of Edinburgh. This presentation was part of Repository Fringe 2014, which took place from 30th to 31st July 2014 in Edinburgh.TRANSCRIPT
S C O T T R E N T O N , L I B R A R Y D I G I T A L
D E V E L O P M E N T
U N I V E R S I T Y O F E D I N B U R G H
J U L Y 2 0 1 4
~ a new tool for archives management~
~a new tool for archives management~
Archives at Edinburgh
Part of Centre for Research Collections
Categorised under Special Collections & Archives
Wide and Varied Selection of Archives
Laing Archive
ECA Archive
Carmichael Watson Archive
Roslin Archive
Godfrey Thomson’s Psychology
Lothian Health Services Archive
Edinburgh College of Art Archive
Includes Sean Connery’s life modelling contract
Don’t believe it?
EU3153 A.Fairweather, Sean Connery as a Life Model, 1952
Current Management
Standard ISAD(G), Schema EAD (XML)
Laid down by GASHE and NAHSTE projects
CMSyst: in-house built MySQL/PHP application
Data feeds Archives Hub, ARCHON, CW site (EDINA)
Which System?
Archivists’ Toolkit
Predecessor to ArchivesSpace, and trialledextensively
Structured to work with EAD, ISAD(G) standards
MySQL database
Good authorities control
No front end!
ArchivesSpace
All archivist functionality in one place
Web delivered
Open Source
Lyrasis network
Infrastructure
MySQL database
Runs under Web Server (often Jetty, but we use Tomcat)
Code developed in JRuby, available Open Source through github
Four webapps:
Public front end
Admin area
Backend (communicator)
SOLR
Migration
Data all available from CMSyst
Exported in EAD
Some obstacles getting EAD to map correctly to loaded authorities using application
Some obstacles getting Authorities to map to ArchivesSpace table structure in JSON load
Digital Objects
ArchivesSpace has functionality to link out to illustrative digital objects- LUNA system
CSV Import of data
Uptake
Popular in America
We are the first European institution to take it
Charter Members (54) executive
General Members (100+) can contribute
Include Auckland and Hong Kong now
collections.ed
ArchivesSpace will effectively be the expression of archives within
Need to brand seamlessly through CSS
Need to surface Archives as CLDs
1000s of collections
Collaborative Project
Good training delivered to Archivists
Curators, archivists, projects and innovations staff and digital developers all involved
User manual collaboratively composed
Good collaboration with other institutions-ArchivesSpace list is lively…
Interns
Next Steps
Conferences in Madrid and Newcastle
Sister application for museums- CollectionSpace
Further Info
Coming soon: http://collections.ed.ac.uk/archives
Our collections portal: http://collections.ed.ac.uk
ArchivesSpace site: http://www.archivesspace.org/
ArchivesSpace code: https://github.com/hudmol/archivesspace
Gateway to Scottish Higher Education: http://www.gashe.ac.uk/
Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology and the Environment: http://www.nahste.ac.uk/
Carmichael Watson website: http://www.carmichaelwatson.lib.ed.ac.uk
Towards Dolly website: http://www.archives.lib.ed.ac.uk/towardsdolly/
LHSA website: http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk
ARCHON: http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/
Archives Hub: http://archiveshub.ac.uk/
Images Online at University of Edinburgh: http://images.is.ed.ac.uk
Our contact: [email protected]