December 2006 version 1.0 of the Archivists’ Toolkit (AT) became available for download. As noted in the announcement, “The Archivists' Toolkit is the first open source archival data management system to provide integrated support for accessioning, description, donor tracking, name and subject authority work, and location management for archival materials. The effort to build this application has benefited tremendously from the interested guidance of the archival community and was made possible through the generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.”
Sunday, March 18, 2007
The Archivists' Toolkit: curious for results
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Yes, it does; at least as access tool for historical archives. Nevertheless, from an European perspective that includes both Records Management and archives administration, it could be insufficient for most organizations. However, as it is an open source application it could be integrated with other tools that involve all the records lifecycle and cover other requirements. Good news for the archives!
Paco Fernández - @rchivista
Thanks for your comment. I just read the article written by Peter van Garderen on archivematica (More Open Source Software for Archives - according to the comment you are familiar with it -). In this blog Peter van Garderen mentioned the existance of three projects (ICA-AtoM, Archon and the Archivists' Tookit) related to the development of an open source archival description application. So many efforts... Makes me even more curious about two of them (AT and Archon) and how they are used (best practice). What are their differences and simularities.
With regard to ICA-AtoM: this one is coming soon.
I agree with you that the (some of them are allready) aspects of archival description have got to be incorporated in tools that are used in the records management/archives administration. Nevertheless there are different interests for both the (government) administration and the archival institutes. Bringing these interests in one framework will be a great effort (....).
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