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
User Insights
ArchivesSpace Open Members Call – January 22, 2-3pm ET (11-noon PT)
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
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
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
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: All Hands on Deck! ECU’s Arrr-chivesSpace Migration
Contributed by: Kelly Spring, Access Archivist, East Carolina University All Hands on Deck! When dealing with over three thousand accessions, two thousand resources, and a handful of assessment records, it’s good to have a large crew. Checking the accuracy of a mere 20% of that data would require a lone pirate to evaluate at least … Read More
User Insights: Chartplotting ECU’s Arrr-chivesSpace Migration
Contributed by: Kelly Spring, Access Archivist, East Carolina University Chartplotting Wouldn’t it be nice to have turn by turn directions to find those vexing errors that you inherently know are in your legacy data? Sometimes charting exactly how to identify messy data can feel like working with an astrolabe to triangulate a position. But, pirate … Read More
User Insights: Arrr-chivesSpace Migration at East Carolina University
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
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
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
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