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 Events (PDF)

Background

Software: ArchivesSpace 2.5.2

Configuration notes: n/a

Current phase: 5 (approved)

Written by: Archival Collection Management Working Group

Approved by: working group

Last updated: 2020 May

Nature of last update: Major revision for AS v 2.5.2

Document History: 2.0