To elaborate on that plugin: At Denver we create MARC records for each 
collection once it’s ready to be published and sent to the catalog. To automate 
that, we dedicated one of the user-defined string fields to the Alma MMS ID, 
which is the hook that its Bibliographic API uses. The plugin asks you to 
provide a Resource as input. From there it checks if that Resource has an MMS 
ID provided in the user-defined fields. If no, it asks if you’d like to create 
one (using the ArchivesSpace MARC export); if yes, it looks for any holdings 
records attached to the MARC record with that MMS ID, and provides you the 
option to create new holdings records if you wish.

A lot of the code in the plugin is hard-coded for the way we have Alma set up 
at DU. I’m working on setting some of those things (holdings codes, etc.) up as 
configurable options so that other Alma users can implement this without having 
to get into too much of the actual plugin code to set it up for their instance. 
It also doesn’t do anything with item records, which is the next major feature 
I want to build into it.

I’m happy to answer other questions about this!  -k

From: <archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of 
Adam Jazairi <jaza...@bc.edu>
Reply-To: Archivesspace Group <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org>
Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 11:52 AM
To: Archivesspace Group <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org>
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Alma Integration

Hi Megan,

We're also interested in such an integration, but we haven't started working on 
it yet. The University of Denver Libraries recently released a plugin that 
might be of interest: https://github.com/duspeccoll/alma_integrations

Adam

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:34 PM Megan Firestone 
<mbla...@stedwards.edu<mailto:mbla...@stedwards.edu>> wrote:
Hi,

We us Alma as our library ILS here, so we have been looking at the possibility 
of integrating Alma and ArchivesSpace.  I was curious if anyone else is 
interested in this type of integration and if there is any work being done?

Thanks!
Megan

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