Documentation

In May 2020 the Archival Collection Management Standing Group completed major revisions to support ArchivesSpace 2.5.2. Affected sections are indicated below.

Implementation Planning and Workflows

• Workflow Overview

Instance Management

• Preferences, Controlled Value Lists, and Default Values (revised 2021)
• User Records & Permissions Settings (revised 2020)
• Containers & Locations (revised 2020)

Usage

• Agents & Subjects (revised 2020)
• Accessions (revised 2020)
• Resource Records (revised 2021)
• Digital Objects (revised 2020)
• Events (revised 2020)
• Exports (revised 2020)

Migration

• Importing EAD (revised 2020)
• Archivist’s Toolkit Cleanup and Migration Preparation
• Using OpenRefine for Cleanup
• CSV Cleanup and Import

Supports

• Archives West Browsing Terms (for AS import) (XML)
• Placeholder AS record (for use in cleanup and import) (XML)

Training Recordings

The recordings are available to view anytime according to your needs.

• Overview
• Walkthrough
• Implementation Choices
• Workflows
• Preparing AT for Migration (Using AT cleanup)
• New! Upload via Spreadsheet (Harvard plugin)
  Part 1: Required and Optional Fields
  Part 2: Personalizing and Importing
  Spreadsheet template
• Repository Records
• User Records & Permissions
• Setting Up Locations
• Accession Records
• Agent Records
• Subject Records
• Containers & Locations
• Single-Level Resource Records
• Multi-Level Resource Records
• Linking Records
• New! Reports
• New! Digital Objects
• Exports
• AS2AW Conversion
• DACS Basics