Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software
Hi all, take a look also at the following if they fits your needs (the first two are italians, and they lack english documentation, sorry) http://www.archimista.it (ruby on rails) https://github.com/codexcoop/archimista Archimista is 70-80% translated into english (at least the GUI...), if you don't know ruby you have just to edit environment.rb (in application\config), change config.i18n.default_locale = :it into config.i18n.default_locale = :en and restart rails. Sadly Raffaele is right: no english documentation (I guess that it's my job, but my english isn't good enough :-)), but you can send me an email for any questions Best Salvatore
Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software
To clarify - our use of Islandora/Fedora is for a specific project, a DAMS for a small image database which needs to scale, eventually, to a large image database. The display on that would only be for the image collection in the near term. We will have no immediate in-house display of our EADs. We rely on OAC for that. Our use of Archivist's Toolkit/ArchivesSpace is for managing descriptive cataloging and internal record-keeping. In the long term, we'll worry about a unified interface layer which can pull together the disparate portions of our Archives. It is conceivable that in the long term our full repository operation could migrate to the Fedora architecture (note, I did not say Islandora). Using it for a small project allows us to learn experiment. It's attractive because we could always add to it over time after more applications are developed and we could contribute to that development either with in-kind work or by throwing money into having others do the dev. It will not change the need for multiple software cheers, Laura On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, That link she posted says they've decided to go with Islandora for the end-user display. Kevin On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Steve Cherry cher...@cua.edu wrote: One thing about Archivits Toolkit is that it has no end-user display, so if providing your data to patrons is a goal I'd suggest Archon (http://www.archon.org). On 8/9/12 4:42 PM, Laura Smart wrote: We've done a very recent analysis of archival systems and decided upon a new architecture based on our local functional specs. This was greatly informed by the CLIR report. I blogged a bit more detail on the solutions we've selected and are in the process of implementing at http://library.caltech.edu/laura/?p=299 . Re: ArchivesSpace - our plan is to implement Archivists Toolkit before ArchivesSpace is released and rely upon the migration assistance they intend to provide to the community. FWIW - there is no one Archival system to rule them all. You will probably have to use more than one piece of software. -- Steve Cherry Electronic Services Librarian The Catholic University of America 202-319-6433 -- Laura J. Smart Metadata Services Manager, Caltech Library la...@library.caltech.edu/laura.j.sm...@gmail.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software
Interesting, thanks for the clarification! Kevin On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Laura Smart laura.j.sm...@gmail.com wrote: To clarify - our use of Islandora/Fedora is for a specific project, a DAMS for a small image database which needs to scale, eventually, to a large image database. The display on that would only be for the image collection in the near term. We will have no immediate in-house display of our EADs. We rely on OAC for that. Our use of Archivist's Toolkit/ArchivesSpace is for managing descriptive cataloging and internal record-keeping. In the long term, we'll worry about a unified interface layer which can pull together the disparate portions of our Archives. It is conceivable that in the long term our full repository operation could migrate to the Fedora architecture (note, I did not say Islandora). Using it for a small project allows us to learn experiment. It's attractive because we could always add to it over time after more applications are developed and we could contribute to that development either with in-kind work or by throwing money into having others do the dev. It will not change the need for multiple software cheers, Laura On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, That link she posted says they've decided to go with Islandora for the end-user display. Kevin On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Steve Cherry cher...@cua.edu wrote: One thing about Archivits Toolkit is that it has no end-user display, so if providing your data to patrons is a goal I'd suggest Archon (http://www.archon.org). On 8/9/12 4:42 PM, Laura Smart wrote: We've done a very recent analysis of archival systems and decided upon a new architecture based on our local functional specs. This was greatly informed by the CLIR report. I blogged a bit more detail on the solutions we've selected and are in the process of implementing at http://library.caltech.edu/laura/?p=299 . Re: ArchivesSpace - our plan is to implement Archivists Toolkit before ArchivesSpace is released and rely upon the migration assistance they intend to provide to the community. FWIW - there is no one Archival system to rule them all. You will probably have to use more than one piece of software. -- Steve Cherry Electronic Services Librarian The Catholic University of America 202-319-6433 -- Laura J. Smart Metadata Services Manager, Caltech Library la...@library.caltech.edu/laura.j.sm...@gmail.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software
take a look also at the following if they fits your needs (the first two are italians, and they lack english documentation, sorry) http://www.archimista.it (ruby on rails) https://github.com/codexcoop/archimista http://www.xdams.org (java) https://github.com/xdamsorg http://collectiveaccess.org (php) https://github.com/collectiveaccess -- raffaele, @atomotic
Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software
One thing about Archivits Toolkit is that it has no end-user display, so if providing your data to patrons is a goal I'd suggest Archon (http://www.archon.org). On 8/9/12 4:42 PM, Laura Smart wrote: We've done a very recent analysis of archival systems and decided upon a new architecture based on our local functional specs. This was greatly informed by the CLIR report. I blogged a bit more detail on the solutions we've selected and are in the process of implementing at http://library.caltech.edu/laura/?p=299 . Re: ArchivesSpace - our plan is to implement Archivists Toolkit before ArchivesSpace is released and rely upon the migration assistance they intend to provide to the community. FWIW - there is no one Archival system to rule them all. You will probably have to use more than one piece of software. -- Steve Cherry Electronic Services Librarian The Catholic University of America 202-319-6433
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Hi, That link she posted says they've decided to go with Islandora for the end-user display. Kevin On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Steve Cherry cher...@cua.edu wrote: One thing about Archivits Toolkit is that it has no end-user display, so if providing your data to patrons is a goal I'd suggest Archon (http://www.archon.org). On 8/9/12 4:42 PM, Laura Smart wrote: We've done a very recent analysis of archival systems and decided upon a new architecture based on our local functional specs. This was greatly informed by the CLIR report. I blogged a bit more detail on the solutions we've selected and are in the process of implementing at http://library.caltech.edu/laura/?p=299 . Re: ArchivesSpace - our plan is to implement Archivists Toolkit before ArchivesSpace is released and rely upon the migration assistance they intend to provide to the community. FWIW - there is no one Archival system to rule them all. You will probably have to use more than one piece of software. -- Steve Cherry Electronic Services Librarian The Catholic University of America 202-319-6433
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Yes, from the link: We decided to go with [Archivist Toolkit / ] ArchivesSpace for archival description, Aeon for patron/financial management, and Fedora/Islandora for our digital asset management system (DAMS). A unified interface layer wasn’t a critical component for us in the near-term. As she said, there is no 'one Archival system to rule them all.' You will probably have to use more than one piece of software. Fwiw, Kevin On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: I believe that Islandora serves as a front-end Fedora/Duraspace. Cary On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, That link she posted says they've decided to go with Islandora for the end-user display. Kevin On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Steve Cherry cher...@cua.edu wrote: One thing about Archivits Toolkit is that it has no end-user display, so if providing your data to patrons is a goal I'd suggest Archon (http://www.archon.org). On 8/9/12 4:42 PM, Laura Smart wrote: We've done a very recent analysis of archival systems and decided upon a new architecture based on our local functional specs. This was greatly informed by the CLIR report. I blogged a bit more detail on the solutions we've selected and are in the process of implementing at http://library.caltech.edu/laura/?p=299 . Re: ArchivesSpace - our plan is to implement Archivists Toolkit before ArchivesSpace is released and rely upon the migration assistance they intend to provide to the community. FWIW - there is no one Archival system to rule them all. You will probably have to use more than one piece of software. -- Steve Cherry Electronic Services Librarian The Catholic University of America 202-319-6433 -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software
To my knowledge, Omeka has no way to assist you in monitoring for bitrot. Actually, I think only dSpace makes this easy - has a ready made module for running checksums on files and comparing to previous values so you can get a report of whether any files changed (ie. were corrupted). What platforms can do this, and what's the status on developing this in a variety of platforms? How are people doing this at your institutions? -Wilhelmina Randtke On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Kaile Zhu kz...@uco.edu wrote: How about Omeka? Need to consider the library standards because eventually you will have to make your archival collection searchable. - Kelly -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lisa Gonzalez Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 1:38 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software Related to the CLIR Report, the wiki version is a little easier to navigate: http://archivalsoftware.pbworks.com/w/page/13600254/FrontPage Lisa Gonzalez Electronic Resources Librarian Catholic Theological Union 5401 S. Cornell Ave. Chicago, IL 60615 773-371-5463 lgonza...@ctu.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Nathan Tallman Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 12:00 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software As an archivist, this is still a very broad response. Are you looking to manage archival collections (accessioning, arrangement and description, producing finding aids, etc.)? If so, Archivists Toolkit or Archon may work for you. I'm not sure what you mean by university historical information, perhaps ready-reference type guides? There are a plethora of web options for this. Are you looking to manage digital assets? Then a digital repository, such as Fedora or Dspace is in order. Although it's a bit out of date at this point, you may want to look at Lisa Spiro's 2009 report, Archival Management Software http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/spiro/. Also, check out Carol Bean's blog, BeanWorks. She has a post about comparing digital asset managers http://beanworks.clbean.com/2010/05/creating-a-comparison-matrix/ (and also has useful related links). Best, Nathan On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: We are looking to centralize the university historical information and archives. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:38 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software I think you need to provide a little more context as to what you are trying to do. The trouble is that the term archive is used in a variety of different ways right now so we need to know what you mean to be able to give you the best suggestions. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: Any suggestions for inexpensive easy to use archival software? Thanks, Jay Dela Cruz, MLIS Electronic Resources Librarian Hodges University | 2655 Northbrooke Drive, Naples, FL 34119-7932 (239) 598-6211 | (800) 466-8017 x 6211 | f. (239) 598-6250 jdelac...@hodges.edu | www.hodges.edu **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! **CONFIDENTIALITY** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited.
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ArchivesSpace is the new tool resulting from the merger of Archivists' Toolkit and Archon, but it looks like it is not in beta until next year: http://www.archivesspace.org/documents/project-timeline/ And from my experience Omeka is more collection display than collection repository, lacking version control among other things. - Scott D. Bacon Web Services and Emerging Technologies Librarian Kimbel Library Coastal Carolina University P.O. Box 261954 Conway, SC 29528-6054 On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Wilhelmina Randtke rand...@gmail.comwrote: To my knowledge, Omeka has no way to assist you in monitoring for bitrot. Actually, I think only dSpace makes this easy - has a ready made module for running checksums on files and comparing to previous values so you can get a report of whether any files changed (ie. were corrupted). What platforms can do this, and what's the status on developing this in a variety of platforms? How are people doing this at your institutions? -Wilhelmina Randtke On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Kaile Zhu kz...@uco.edu wrote: How about Omeka? Need to consider the library standards because eventually you will have to make your archival collection searchable. - Kelly -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lisa Gonzalez Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 1:38 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software Related to the CLIR Report, the wiki version is a little easier to navigate: http://archivalsoftware.pbworks.com/w/page/13600254/FrontPage Lisa Gonzalez Electronic Resources Librarian Catholic Theological Union 5401 S. Cornell Ave. Chicago, IL 60615 773-371-5463 lgonza...@ctu.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Nathan Tallman Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 12:00 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software As an archivist, this is still a very broad response. Are you looking to manage archival collections (accessioning, arrangement and description, producing finding aids, etc.)? If so, Archivists Toolkit or Archon may work for you. I'm not sure what you mean by university historical information, perhaps ready-reference type guides? There are a plethora of web options for this. Are you looking to manage digital assets? Then a digital repository, such as Fedora or Dspace is in order. Although it's a bit out of date at this point, you may want to look at Lisa Spiro's 2009 report, Archival Management Software http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/spiro/. Also, check out Carol Bean's blog, BeanWorks. She has a post about comparing digital asset managers http://beanworks.clbean.com/2010/05/creating-a-comparison-matrix/ (and also has useful related links). Best, Nathan On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: We are looking to centralize the university historical information and archives. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:38 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software I think you need to provide a little more context as to what you are trying to do. The trouble is that the term archive is used in a variety of different ways right now so we need to know what you mean to be able to give you the best suggestions. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: Any suggestions for inexpensive easy to use archival software? Thanks, Jay Dela Cruz, MLIS Electronic Resources Librarian Hodges University | 2655 Northbrooke Drive, Naples, FL 34119-7932 (239) 598-6211 | (800) 466-8017 x 6211 | f. (239) 598-6250 jdelac...@hodges.edu | www.hodges.edu **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! **CONFIDENTIALITY** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software
I think you need to provide a little more context as to what you are trying to do. The trouble is that the term archive is used in a variety of different ways right now so we need to know what you mean to be able to give you the best suggestions. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: Any suggestions for inexpensive easy to use archival software? Thanks, Jay Dela Cruz, MLIS Electronic Resources Librarian Hodges University | 2655 Northbrooke Drive, Naples, FL 34119-7932 (239) 598-6211 | (800) 466-8017 x 6211 | f. (239) 598-6250 jdelac...@hodges.edu | www.hodges.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 10:42:42AM -0400, Joselito Dela Cruz wrote: We are looking to centralize the university historical information and archives. We use homegrown (avoid this!) system which we are planning to programatically move to Archivists Toolkit [0] which meets the inexpensive need below. YMMV on the `ease of use`. Our team at the Univ. Archives chose the software above overwhelmingly. ./fxk [0] http://www.archiviststoolkit.org -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:38 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software I think you need to provide a little more context as to what you are trying to do. The trouble is that the term archive is used in a variety of different ways right now so we need to know what you mean to be able to give you the best suggestions. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: Any suggestions for inexpensive easy to use archival software? Thanks, Jay Dela Cruz, MLIS Electronic Resources Librarian Hodges University | 2655 Northbrooke Drive, Naples, FL 34119-7932 (239) 598-6211 | (800) 466-8017 x 6211 | f. (239) 598-6250 jdelac...@hodges.edu | www.hodges.edu -- The devil finds work for idle circuits to do.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software
Jay, If by 'archival software' you mean a digital preservation toolkit, check out Archivematica, https://www.archivematica.org/wiki/Main_Page Mark - Original Message - Any suggestions for inexpensive easy to use archival software? Thanks, Jay Dela Cruz, MLIS Electronic Resources Librarian Hodges University | 2655 Northbrooke Drive, Naples, FL 34119-7932 (239) 598-6211 | (800) 466-8017 x 6211 | f. (239) 598-6250 jdelac...@hodges.edu | www.hodges.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software
We have begun looking at Fedora - fedora-commons.org - (with the drupal Islandora front end islandora.ca ) but are at the earliest stages so I can't really comment perfectly on the 'easy to use' but it is free. Katie From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Mark Jordan [mjor...@sfu.ca] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 11:10 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software Jay, If by 'archival software' you mean a digital preservation toolkit, check out Archivematica, https://www.archivematica.org/wiki/Main_Page Mark - Original Message - Any suggestions for inexpensive easy to use archival software? Thanks, Jay Dela Cruz, MLIS Electronic Resources Librarian Hodges University | 2655 Northbrooke Drive, Naples, FL 34119-7932 (239) 598-6211 | (800) 466-8017 x 6211 | f. (239) 598-6250 jdelac...@hodges.edu | www.hodges.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software
As an archivist, this is still a very broad response. Are you looking to manage archival collections (accessioning, arrangement and description, producing finding aids, etc.)? If so, Archivists Toolkit or Archon may work for you. I'm not sure what you mean by university historical information, perhaps ready-reference type guides? There are a plethora of web options for this. Are you looking to manage digital assets? Then a digital repository, such as Fedora or Dspace is in order. Although it's a bit out of date at this point, you may want to look at Lisa Spiro's 2009 report, Archival Management Software http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/spiro/. Also, check out Carol Bean's blog, BeanWorks. She has a post about comparing digital asset managers http://beanworks.clbean.com/2010/05/creating-a-comparison-matrix/ (and also has useful related links). Best, Nathan On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: We are looking to centralize the university historical information and archives. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:38 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software I think you need to provide a little more context as to what you are trying to do. The trouble is that the term archive is used in a variety of different ways right now so we need to know what you mean to be able to give you the best suggestions. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: Any suggestions for inexpensive easy to use archival software? Thanks, Jay Dela Cruz, MLIS Electronic Resources Librarian Hodges University | 2655 Northbrooke Drive, Naples, FL 34119-7932 (239) 598-6211 | (800) 466-8017 x 6211 | f. (239) 598-6250 jdelac...@hodges.edu | www.hodges.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software
Related to the CLIR Report, the wiki version is a little easier to navigate: http://archivalsoftware.pbworks.com/w/page/13600254/FrontPage Lisa Gonzalez Electronic Resources Librarian Catholic Theological Union 5401 S. Cornell Ave. Chicago, IL 60615 773-371-5463 lgonza...@ctu.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Nathan Tallman Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 12:00 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software As an archivist, this is still a very broad response. Are you looking to manage archival collections (accessioning, arrangement and description, producing finding aids, etc.)? If so, Archivists Toolkit or Archon may work for you. I'm not sure what you mean by university historical information, perhaps ready-reference type guides? There are a plethora of web options for this. Are you looking to manage digital assets? Then a digital repository, such as Fedora or Dspace is in order. Although it's a bit out of date at this point, you may want to look at Lisa Spiro's 2009 report, Archival Management Software http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/spiro/. Also, check out Carol Bean's blog, BeanWorks. She has a post about comparing digital asset managers http://beanworks.clbean.com/2010/05/creating-a-comparison-matrix/ (and also has useful related links). Best, Nathan On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: We are looking to centralize the university historical information and archives. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:38 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software I think you need to provide a little more context as to what you are trying to do. The trouble is that the term archive is used in a variety of different ways right now so we need to know what you mean to be able to give you the best suggestions. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: Any suggestions for inexpensive easy to use archival software? Thanks, Jay Dela Cruz, MLIS Electronic Resources Librarian Hodges University | 2655 Northbrooke Drive, Naples, FL 34119-7932 (239) 598-6211 | (800) 466-8017 x 6211 | f. (239) 598-6250 jdelac...@hodges.edu | www.hodges.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software
How about Omeka? Need to consider the library standards because eventually you will have to make your archival collection searchable. - Kelly -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lisa Gonzalez Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 1:38 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software Related to the CLIR Report, the wiki version is a little easier to navigate: http://archivalsoftware.pbworks.com/w/page/13600254/FrontPage Lisa Gonzalez Electronic Resources Librarian Catholic Theological Union 5401 S. Cornell Ave. Chicago, IL 60615 773-371-5463 lgonza...@ctu.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Nathan Tallman Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 12:00 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software As an archivist, this is still a very broad response. Are you looking to manage archival collections (accessioning, arrangement and description, producing finding aids, etc.)? If so, Archivists Toolkit or Archon may work for you. I'm not sure what you mean by university historical information, perhaps ready-reference type guides? There are a plethora of web options for this. Are you looking to manage digital assets? Then a digital repository, such as Fedora or Dspace is in order. Although it's a bit out of date at this point, you may want to look at Lisa Spiro's 2009 report, Archival Management Software http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/spiro/. Also, check out Carol Bean's blog, BeanWorks. She has a post about comparing digital asset managers http://beanworks.clbean.com/2010/05/creating-a-comparison-matrix/ (and also has useful related links). Best, Nathan On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: We are looking to centralize the university historical information and archives. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:38 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software I think you need to provide a little more context as to what you are trying to do. The trouble is that the term archive is used in a variety of different ways right now so we need to know what you mean to be able to give you the best suggestions. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: Any suggestions for inexpensive easy to use archival software? Thanks, Jay Dela Cruz, MLIS Electronic Resources Librarian Hodges University | 2655 Northbrooke Drive, Naples, FL 34119-7932 (239) 598-6211 | (800) 466-8017 x 6211 | f. (239) 598-6250 jdelac...@hodges.edu | www.hodges.edu **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! **CONFIDENTIALITY** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited.
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I find Omeka to be stronger in the area of collections publication and exhibition than hardcore archival management due to the rather rudimentary Dublin Core metadata foundation. You can make other element sets, but it's not a perfect solution. Ethan On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Kaile Zhu kz...@uco.edu wrote: How about Omeka? Need to consider the library standards because eventually you will have to make your archival collection searchable. - Kelly -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lisa Gonzalez Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 1:38 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software Related to the CLIR Report, the wiki version is a little easier to navigate: http://archivalsoftware.pbworks.com/w/page/13600254/FrontPage Lisa Gonzalez Electronic Resources Librarian Catholic Theological Union 5401 S. Cornell Ave. Chicago, IL 60615 773-371-5463 lgonza...@ctu.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Nathan Tallman Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 12:00 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software As an archivist, this is still a very broad response. Are you looking to manage archival collections (accessioning, arrangement and description, producing finding aids, etc.)? If so, Archivists Toolkit or Archon may work for you. I'm not sure what you mean by university historical information, perhaps ready-reference type guides? There are a plethora of web options for this. Are you looking to manage digital assets? Then a digital repository, such as Fedora or Dspace is in order. Although it's a bit out of date at this point, you may want to look at Lisa Spiro's 2009 report, Archival Management Software http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/spiro/. Also, check out Carol Bean's blog, BeanWorks. She has a post about comparing digital asset managers http://beanworks.clbean.com/2010/05/creating-a-comparison-matrix/ (and also has useful related links). Best, Nathan On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: We are looking to centralize the university historical information and archives. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:38 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software I think you need to provide a little more context as to what you are trying to do. The trouble is that the term archive is used in a variety of different ways right now so we need to know what you mean to be able to give you the best suggestions. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: Any suggestions for inexpensive easy to use archival software? Thanks, Jay Dela Cruz, MLIS Electronic Resources Librarian Hodges University | 2655 Northbrooke Drive, Naples, FL 34119-7932 (239) 598-6211 | (800) 466-8017 x 6211 | f. (239) 598-6250 jdelac...@hodges.edu | www.hodges.edu **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! **CONFIDENTIALITY** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited.
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We've done a very recent analysis of archival systems and decided upon a new architecture based on our local functional specs. This was greatly informed by the CLIR report. I blogged a bit more detail on the solutions we've selected and are in the process of implementing at http://library.caltech.edu/laura/?p=299 . Re: ArchivesSpace - our plan is to implement Archivists Toolkit before ArchivesSpace is released and rely upon the migration assistance they intend to provide to the community. FWIW - there is no one Archival system to rule them all. You will probably have to use more than one piece of software. -- Laura J. Smart Metadata Services Manager, Caltech Library la...@library.caltech.edu/laura.j.sm...@gmail.com
