[CODE4LIB] Archivematica release 1.5 and Storage Service 0.8

[Sarah Romkey]

Dear colleagues,

We’re pleased to announce a stable release of Archivematica version 1.5 and
Storage Service version 0.8.

New features in the 1.5 release (as described in the QA release):



   -

   Upload DIP metadata to ArchivesSpace (Sponsored by Rockefeller Archive
   Center). Similar to the Archivists’ Toolkit workflow
   
,
   this DIP upload functionality allows you to send technical metadata and
   rights metadata about your DIP objects from Archivematica to ArchivesSpace.
   Ticket #8413  ;
   Documentation:
   
https://www.archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.5/user-manual/access/access/#upload-as
   .
   -

   AIP re-ingest for DIP generation and metadata updates (Sponsored by Zuse
   Institut of Berlin). Allows you to re-ingest an existing Archivematica AIP
   for the purpose of normalizing for access (DIP creation) or to update the
   Dublin Core and PREMIS rights metadata. Note that full AIP re-ingest,
   allowing for the re-running of all micro-services including
   re-normalization for preservation purposes, is currently under development
   and is targeted for the 1.6 release. Ticket #8679
    ; Documentation:
   
https://www.archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.5/user-manual/ingest/ingest/#reingest
   -

   Send a hierarchical DIP to AtoM (Sponsored by the National Library of
   Wales). Retrieves the Levels of Description taxonomy from an AtoM
   installation and allows you to apply them to directories and items in SIP
   arrange. Adds a logical structMap to the METS file, which when received by
   AtoM after DIP upload, automatically creates descriptions (information
   objects) in AtoM matching the names and levels of description you assigned
   in SIP arrange. Ticket #8678
    ; Documentation:
   
https://www.archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.5/user-manual/ingest/ingest/#arrange-sip


Newly added since the QA release!



   -

   Move Store DIP to its own user choice (Sponsored by MIT Libraries).
   This feature moves the Store DIP option after the Upload DIP option
   (note that you’ll still be able to choose Store DIP as the first choice).
   This allows users to upload a DIP or DIP metadata to an access system
   (AtoM, ArchivesSpace or Archivists’ Toolkit) and easily keep a stored copy
   as well. Please refer to the diagram
    on
   our wiki. Ticket #8995  ;
   Documentation:
   
https://www.archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.5/user-manual/access/access/#store-dip
   -

   Storage Service API authorization: For added security, the Storage
   Service now requires an API key when called by Archivematica for AIP
   deletion requests, AIP download requests, etc. Ticket #9838
   


Back-end improvements:

   -

   #7303  - Replace SQL with
   ORM
   -

   #8891  - Add connection
   pooling to django ORM (Note: this will improve scalability for processing
   transfers with many objects)
   -

   #5673  - Update Tastypie
   to latest version
   -

   #7305  - Update to Django
   1.7
   -

   #8974  - Use Django
   migrations instead of raw SQL


Bugs fixed in this release:

   -

   #9080  - Cannot delete
   directory in SIP arrange
   -

   #9590  - Remove tool
   version from file identification drop-down
   -

   #9704  - Certain Latin
   characters break transfer user interface
   -

   #8812  - Revert Dublin
   Core date field back to text string
   -

   #9635  - UUIDs appended to
   filenames for normalized preservation files should be the file UUID
   -

   #9155  - Duracloud
   chunking can exhaust available memory
   -

   #8319  - PREMIS formatName
   value not taken from PRONOM (more info on this in FPR updates, below)


… and more! You can see a full list of changes made in this release in the
changelog

.

FPR updates:

The Format Policy Registry (FPR) is now updated to use version 84 of PRONOM
(released January 2016- see release notes
.)
In addition to 

[CODE4LIB] Archivematica Webinar: Automation Tools (May 26, 9 AM PST)

[Sarah Romkey]

Dear colleagues,

We're holding a free webinar on installing, configuring and using
Archivematica's Automation Tools
. The Automation Tools are
add-on scripts that can be used to automate processes within Archivematica,
or to prepare content before entering the Archivematica pipeline. They are
being used by a number of different institutions in different workflows and
configurations.

Date: May 26th
Time: 9 am - 10 am PST (12 pm - 1 pm EST, 5 pm - 6 pm BST)
Presenter: Justin Simpson, Archivematica Technical Director

The webinar is free but spaces are limited so please RSVP here
!
We will record the webinar and make it available at a later date if you
cannot make it.

Thanks for your interest,

Best,

Sarah Romkey

Sarah Romkey, MAS,MLIS
Archivematica Program Manager
Artefactual Systems 
604-527-2056
@archivematica  / @accesstomemory

[CODE4LIB] Archivematica/AtoM meetup at Code4Lib

[Sarah Romkey]

Dear colleagues,

Myself and Dan Gillean, AtoM program manager, will be attending Code4Lib in
Philadelphia and would love to meet some Archivematica and AtoM users, or
those interested in joining our communities of users!

If this interests you, please fill out this form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Oanp9xrcxSTn67Crluxf8LHBvPmZzZCPqI7XLo4292w/viewform?usp=send_form

Hope to see you there!

Cheers,

Sarah

Sarah Romkey, MAS,MLIS
Archivematica Program Manager
Artefactual Systems 
604-527-2056
@archivematica  / @accesstomemory

[CODE4LIB] Archivematica AtoM conection

[Alberto Santiago Martinez]

Hi,  my name is alberto santiago, digitial initiatives librarian from el 
colegio de mexico in mx city.  Just wondering if there are any 
archivematica/atom users on this list serve.  Cheers to all!

Sent from my iPhone

Re: [CODE4LIB] archivematica

[Fleming, Declan]

Hi Eric - I met Peter Van Garderen of Archivematica at IDCC and asked if he'd 
be at code4lib.  I'm not sure he can make it, but I've cc'd him here to answer 
your question.

It's a pretty neat stack of software, and follows a lot of the same philosophy 
we do in a microservices approach to digital asset management.

D

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Eric 
Lease Morgan
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 6:36 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] archivematica

On Dec 17, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:

 Does anybody here know how Archivematica is similar  different from Fedora? 
 For example, to what degree could Fedora be used as a component of 
 Archivematica?



I'll answer my own question, Very little.

Archivematica [1] is distributed as a virtual software appliance, and Fedora is 
not a part of the distribution. Archivematica seems to use the local file 
system for storage and a host of other pieces of software to manage metadata 
and processes. Interesting!

[1] Archivematica - http://archivematica.org

-- 
Eric Morgan
University of Notre Dame

Re: [CODE4LIB] archivematica

[Eric Lease Morgan]

On Dec 17, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:

 Does anybody here know how Archivematica is similar  different from Fedora? 
 For example, to what degree could Fedora be used as a component of 
 Archivematica?



I'll answer my own question, Very little.

Archivematica [1] is distributed as a virtual software appliance, and Fedora is 
not a part of the distribution. Archivematica seems to use the local file 
system for storage and a host of other pieces of software to manage metadata 
and processes. Interesting!

[1] Archivematica - http://archivematica.org

-- 
Eric Morgan
University of Notre Dame