Hi Olivia, I think you have the right idea here. We use a wiki for instructions on using ArchivesSpace. We were using Archivists' Toolkit prior to AS so some of these terms were familiar to people. It take a little bit of time to adjust, but I found that linking these terms to the concepts they already knew was helpful. Most obvious was that a resource records was AS speak for finding aid. As Christie said knowing how the records work together helped as well. I am happy to share some of my wiki documents with you if you like.
Best, Margaret ------------------------------ Margaret Turman Kidd Access and Electronic Records Archivist, Special Collections & Archives VCU Libraries | Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences 509 N. 12th Street / Box 980582, Richmond, VA 23298-0582 (804) 828-3152 [image: em_twitter.png] <https://twitter.com/VCUTMLibrary> [image: em_fb.png] <https://www.facebook.com/VCUTMLib> <http://www.vcu.edu/> <http://vaheritage.org> On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Olivia S Solis <livso...@utexas.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > I always seem to post on Friday afternoons. > > Throwing this out to the group because training is of immediate and scary > concern. One of the things that I am acutely aware of is that our staff is > going to have to get used to new terminology and fast to be able to use > ASpace. Lingo is going to be a big barrier to access. > > What have been some of your conceptual/terminology roadblocks in terms of > staff training? > > Things I know I will have to explain as new terminology/conceptual > reframing are included as headers below. I'm laying my work bare here, but > I'm thinking that the crowdsourcing could be useful here. We've got people > at varied levels of technical proficiency. I was thinking of an informal > cheat sheet. > > Did you make a cheat sheet for ASpace lingo for staff training? Am I not > including some conceptual leaps here? Did you have ASpace terminology you > had to explain in multiple ways? > > Thanks, > Olivia > > > > *Agent RecordA record type for a person, family, corporation, or software. > A major record type in ASpace that can link to Accession Records, Resource > Records, Archival Object Records, and Event Records in various roles, most > often as subjects and creators. Every distinct agent has one and only one > record.Archival Object Record[NOTE we're not using ASpace for digital > objects]A record type for an item in an inventory. If are familiar with > EAD, this corresponds to a <c##> level. If not, think of this as a tabbed > level of an inventory. ChildArchivesSpace thinks of hierarchical > relationships as "parent"/"child". A parent could be the <c01> to a child > <c02>, though ASpace would never frame it in terms of specific numbered > component levels. A parent could also be the box that a child > reel/folder/box within the parent boxClassificationsContainer > ProfileBasically, the type and dimensions of a container. Container > profiles are consecutively numbered by type. For a description of container > types see [this link]. For specs/pictures of different container types, see > [this link].Event RecordIn DBCAH's implementation, Event Records document > specific steps taken in archival processing, most comprehensively in > Accession Records (e.g. Deeds of Gift sent or received). Event Records are > bound to specific dates.InstanceIndicatorLocation ProfileNote > (resources)ParentResource RecordEssentially a finding aid plus some > additional collection management information.Space Calculator* > > -- > Olivia Solis, MSIS > Metadata Coordinator > Dolph Briscoe Center for American History > The University of Texas at Austin > 2300 Red River St. Stop D1100 > Austin TX, 78712-1426 > (512) 232-8013 > > _______________________________________________ > Archivesspace_Users_Group mailing list > Archivesspace_Users_Group@lyralists.lyrasis.org > http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/archivesspace_users_group > >
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