User Insights: Arr-chivesSpace Migration Update from East Carolina University

February 5, 2020By Jessica Dowd CrouchAll About Community, News, User Insights No Comments

Over the past two years, the East Carolina University Pirates have engaged in a large-scale migration project to evaluate, prep, and load data from several dispersed databases into ArchivesSpace. ECU has shared the journey, from careening data to sailing into production. By regularly posting their progress ECU aimed to empower you, the ArchivesSpace community, to know that … Read More

ArchivesSpace Open Members Call – January 22, 2-3pm ET (11-noon PT)

January 10, 2020By Jessica Dowd CrouchAll About Community, User Insights No Comments

Please join us for our next community members open call via Zoom on January 22 at 2-3pm ET (11-noon PT). This is an opportunity to talk informally about ideas you’ve had, challenges you’ve encountered, or news you’d like to share. During this call the Development Prioritization sub-team of our User Advisory Council will summarize the … Read More

User Insights: Arr-chivesSpace Migration Update from East Carolina University

October 11, 2019By Jessica Dowd CrouchUser Insights No Comments

About the series: The East Carolina University Pirates are engaged in a large-scale migration project to evaluate, prep, and load data from several dispersed databases into ArchivesSpace. Over the next two years, ECU will share the journey from careening data to weighing anchor to sailing into production. By regularly posting progress ECU aims to empower … Read More

User Insights: Shipshape

June 19, 2019By Jessica Dowd CrouchUser Insights No Comments

About the series: The East Carolina University Pirates are engaged in a large-scale migration project to evaluate, prep, and load data from several dispersed databases into ArchivesSpace. Over the next two years, ECU will share the journey from careening data to weighing anchor to sailing into production. By regularly posting progress ECU aims to empower … Read More

User Insights: ECU Arrr-chivesSpace Migration

March 13, 2019By Christine Di BellaUser Insights No Comments

Contributed by: Kelly Spring, Access Archivist, East Carolina University About the series: The East Carolina University Pirates are engaged in a large-scale migration project to evaluate, prep, and load data from several dispersed databases into ArchivesSpace. Over the next two years, ECU will share the journey from careening data to weighing anchor to sailing into … Read More

User Insights: Arrr-chivesSpace Migration at East Carolina University

August 27, 2018By Christine KimUser Insights No Comments

Contributed by: Kelly Spring, Access Archivist, East Carolina University About the series: The East Carolina University Pirates are engaged in a large-scale migration project to evaluate, prep, and load data from several dispersed databases into ArchivesSpace. Over the next two years, ECU will share the journey from careening data to weighing anchor to sailing into … Read More

User Insights: Organizing an ArchivesSpace Training for Smaller Institutions

May 31, 2018By Christine KimUser Insights No Comments

Contributed by: Adrienne Harling, Archivist, San Francisco Symphony As ArchivesSpace is now the industry standard for Archival collection management and finding aid generation, organizations of all sizes are looking to adopt it. To do this successfully, it is ideal to get in-person training as well as membership access to the wealth of self-help instructional materials … Read More

User Insights: Transitioning to ArchivesSpace: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

January 11, 2018By Christine KimUser Insights No Comments

Contributed by: Amber J. D’Ambrosio, Processing Archivist & Records Manager, Willamette University Willamette University Archives and Special Collections migrated to ArchivesSpace (AS) in early 2016, not long after I assumed the position of Processing Archivist & Records Manager. I had herded my previous institution into AS from Archivists’ Toolkit (AT), and I felt comfortable working … Read More