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 User Records & Permissions Settings (PDF)

Instructions for setting up users and making decisions about permissions settings

Background

Software: ArchivesSpace v. 2.5.2

Configuration notes: n/a

Current phase: Phase 5 (Approved)

Written by: Archival Collection Management Working Group

Approved by: n/a

Last updated: 2020 May

Nature of last update: Major revision for AS v 2.5.2

Document History: 2.0