Purpose

The purpose of the Orbis Cascade Alliance’s ArchivesSpace documentation is to:

• Ensure a basic level of uniformity in the structure, encoding, and content of archival collection management metadata
• Promote interoperability of metadata
• Provide clear guidance on program-wide and institutional choices
• Ease the pathway from ArchivesSpace to Archives West

Documentation

ArchivesSpace Usage: Importing EAD (PDF)

Instructions for importing EAD into ArchivesSpace to create Resource Records and support records. Identifies pre-migration cleanup tasks, common problems for A&M participating institutions, and interpretation of AS import logs.

Updates expected as institutions encounter and report additional situations.

Institutions that wish to upload and merge collection- and component- level can use this XML placeholder record.

Background

Software: ArchivesSpace v. 3.2.0

Configuration notes: n/a

Current phase: Phase 5 (Approved)

Written by: Archival Collection Management Working Group

Approved by: n/a

Last updated: 2024 August

Nature of last update: Minor revisions to troubleshooting examples

Document History: 2.0