This five-part training series offers an interactive overview of all that you need to know to create or convert finding aids so that they can go into the database: DACS basics, EAD basics, our best practices, encoding tools choices, workflows, and the many other tools that the Archives & Manuscripts Service offers.
Category: Documentation
ArchivesSpace Workshop: Resource Records and Linking
This workshop covers forming standards-compliant resource records.
ArchivesSpace Workshop: CSV Cleanup and Import
This workshop will give participants the background and skills necessary to remediate CSV data to prepare it for a successful import to ArchivesSpace.
ArchivesSpace Workshop: Implementation Choices
This workshop introduces implementation methods for ArchivesSpace.
ArchivesSpace Workshop: Capstone
This capstone ArchivesSpace workshop is a chance to review the content from the previous workshops, add a few more skills, and to address any points that may be fuzzy for you or your institution.
ArchivesSpace Workshop: Accessions, Agents, and Subjects
Accessions, agents, and subjects are some of the building blocks of any type of ArchivesSpace implementation. This training focuses on creating records that are compliang with DACS and related standards, and on linking these elements.
ArchivesSpace Training
The Archives & Manuscripts (A&M) Collections Service offers participating institutions training in implementing, migrating to, and using ArchivesSpace.
Policy: Working in Alma and the Network Zone
This policy sets out the overarching principles regarding working in the Network Zone that Alliance members must understand.
Use of Faceted Terms in Cataloging
These best practices address how to use faceted terms in bibliographic records.
Policy: Suppression of Records in Alma
This policy specifies how records in the Network Zone (NZ) should be suppressed in different situations.