Fun with Archives
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1) Piers Higgs from Gaia Resources presented on their experience with AtoM and the State Records Office of Western Australia's implementation of AtoM. 2) The State Records Office of WA launched AtoM in 2015 with over 800,000 items migrated from their previous system. They customized AtoM to include the Australian Series System. 3) Gaia Resources has been involved in the partnership with the State Records Office of WA and the open source AtoM community, contributing customizations to support the Australian Series System.
Fun with Archives
- 1. Presented at ASA AGM, NSW, 21st September 2016 GAIA RESOURCES Fun with Archives Piers Higgs Gaia Resources
- 2. ARCHIVES Introduction • Gaia Resources and our evolution • A quick overview of AtoM • State Records Office of Western Australia • Expanding on the software
- 7. ARCHIVES AtoM Overview • Archival Management System
- 8. ARCHIVES State Records Office of WA • Launched with 804,023 items, 4,843 series, 5,865 consignments and 1,919 agencies https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/
- 9. ARCHIVES State Records Office of WA AEON(Investigator) Enhancements
- 10. ARCHIVES State Records Office of WA • 2012 – Evaluation and testing of potential replacement systems for AEON (Investigator) • 2012 - AtoM was chosen as the system to implement … business cases and funding approvals … • 2014 – 2015 – Implementation and customisation to include the Australian Series System and migration of the data • 2015 – Launched!
- 11. ARCHIVES State Records Office of WA • Project included: • Implementing AtoM • Additional functionality (e.g. user registration, reports) was also included in the build • Migration of the data from the BOS/AEON system to AtoM • Enhancements for the implementation of the Australian Series System
- 12. ARCHIVES State Records Office of WA • To implement the Australian Series System, we created three new plugins: • Archival Descriptions – via a modification of the International Standard Archival Description plugin • Agencies/Actors – via a modification of the International Standard Archival Authority Record plugin • A new Accessions plugin.
- 13. ARCHIVES State Records Office of WA • Been a partnership
- 15. ARCHIVES Expanding on the software • Our changes to the software are available and being reviewed and investigated • University of Cape Town are working on a port of the user registration component • Lots of discussion around the Australian Series System (see you in Parramatta!) • Also developing our Australian services including support contracts, hosted services and implementations
- 16. ARCHIVES Piers Higgs (08) 92277309 or 0411 754 006 piers@gaiaresources.com.au www.gaiaresources.com.au
Editor's Notes
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