[Archivesspace_Users_Group] ArchivesSpace Update - December 2019

[Christine Di Bella]

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December 2019 Update
Development

We are working on the next release of ArchivesSpace, projected for early 2020. 
Some of the new features that are likely to be included are merging top 
containers, merging container profiles, and additional options for viewing 
results in the browse and search areas in the staff interface. The release will 
also have some performance and accessibility improvements. We will have more 
details closer to the time of the release.


One of the most popular plugins for ArchivesSpace is the aspace-import-excel 
(https://github.com/harvard-library/aspace-import-excel) plugin, originally 
developed at Harvard University by Bobbi Fox. This plugin enables users to 
create archival objects in a spreadsheet and import them into an ArchivesSpace 
resource record, greatly speeding up data entry. We are pleased to share that 
we have contracted with Bobbi to convert this plugin to the core code of 
ArchivesSpace, meaning that this functionality will soon be available in 
ArchivesSpace without downloading and installing a separate plugin. We expect 
this feature to be completed for a release of ArchivesSpace in late winter or 
early spring of 2020.


New ArchivesSpace Help Center

We're pleased to announce that the new ArchivesSpace Help Center, with an 
improved user manual and new training videos, is now available. Access to the 
ArchivesSpace Help Center is a benefit of ArchivesSpace membership. The new and 
improved content is thanks to the efforts of our User Documentation sub-team 
and our training corps.

Click 
here
 to learn more about accessing and navigating the Help Center.

The current site 
(http://docs.archivesspace.org) will be up 
through early 2020, but it is closed to new user signups and no content will be 
updated.

Staff of member institutions are eligible for accounts in the new Help Center. 
How you access the new Help Center depends on a variety of factors, including 
whether or not you had access to the previous Help Center:

  *   If you already had an account for our Confluence site, privileges to 
access the new Help Center area have been added to your account.

  *   If you had an account on the previous Help Center site but did not 
already have an account for our Confluence site, you received an email 
invitation from Atlassian to set up your account and get access to the new 
area. The subject line is ArchivesSpace has invited you to Confluence. If you 
did not receive this message, please contact us.
  *   If you did not have an account on the previous Help Center site and do 
not already have a Confluence account, follow these steps to sign up for an 
account.
 Upon account creation, please allow 2 business days for Help Center 
permissions to take effect.


We hope you enjoy the new content and look forward to the enhanced 
opportunities for community participation that the new site will allow. Thanks 
for your patience as we make this transition and please do let us know if you 
have any questions.


Volunteer for the next ArchivesSpace Regional Forum

We are looking for volunteers from member institutions of all sizes to form a 
working group to plan the agenda and program for our next Regional Forum in San 
Francisco, California!



ArchivesSpace will hold a Regional Forum at the San Francisco Public Library in 
conjunction with the Western Archivists Conference on April 22, 2020.  As with 
previous Regional Forums, this will be a free opportunity for staff of 
ArchivesSpace member institutions to meet and share information with each other 
and the program team.  Working group volunteers are essential to the success of 
Regional Forums as they work with me to create a program that reflects local 
users' interests and activities.



Please contact Jessica at jessica.cro...@lyrasis.org to volunteer by January 
24th. Registration for the Western Archivists Regional Forum will open closer 
to the time of the event.


Upcoming Webinar: Integrating ArchivesSpace with Aviary

January 15, 2020, 2-3pm ET (11-noon PT; 7-8pm GMT)

Visit the ArchivesSpace blog for details.

ArchivesSpace is pleased to announce 
the fourth webinar in our series focused on Integrations with ArchivesSpace.  
Each webinar in this series will highlight an integration with another 
application used in archives that ArchivesSpace members have worked on or 
requested.  The webinar series will feature both open source and proprietary 
systems.



Our fourth webinar in this series will feature an integration with the 
audiovisual publishing platform 
Aviary.



Webinar description:

This webinar will be recorded and made available on the ArchivesS

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Happy holidays from ArchivesSpace

[Christine Di Bella]

[Happy Holidays from ArchivesSpace]

Dear ArchivesSpace community,

Thank you for your continued support! We really appreciate all you do to shape 
ArchivesSpace, both as an application and a community. This has been a 
wonderful year of progress and growth, and we look forward to accomplishing 
even more together in the next.

Our office will be closed from December 24 to January 1. Normal office hours 
will resume on January 2nd. We wish you all warm and happy holidays!

Sincerely,
Your ArchivesSpace Program Team
(Christine Di Bella, Jessica Crouch, Laney McGlohon, Lora Woodford, Alicia 
Johnson, and Laurie Gemmill Arp)

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