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On this page is a list of community success stories relating to both AtoM and ICA-AtoM. We know there are a lot more success stories out there, so please help us populate this page. Feel free to add your own success story here!
Success stories
June 8, 2015 - Simon Fraser University (SFU) Archives announces new website content, including a section on digital preservation, describing SFU Archives' use of AtoM and Archivematica for digital preservation and access. From the announcement:
In 2013-14, the Archives received a three-year SFU University Priority Fund grant to develop a digital repository for archival materials. We're now into Year 3 and moving into production. This page brings together various resources relating to the project, including technical documentation, guidelines and tools, reports and presentations. Content will be added as more documents become available.
- See the page here: http://www.sfu.ca/archives/digital-repository/dr-overview.html
June 4, 2015 - Dalhousie University Archives announces the availability of the Elisabeth Mann Borgese digital archives, via AtoM. The largest archival digitization project undertaken to date by Dalhousie University, the Borgese collection has already attracted international researchers to Halifax, Nova Scotia and Dalhousie University Archives is now pleased to provide online access to this material for local and distance researchers.
- See the Borgese fonds in AtoM: http://findingaids.library.dal.ca/elisabeth-mann-borgese-fonds
- See the announcement in the AtoM User Forum: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ica-atom-users/rLa6zr5AsU0/ipKNsxDlfz8J
- See an announcement on the LibVine, a Dalhousie University blog: https://blogs.dal.ca/libraries/2015/05/learn-more-about-a-key-figure-in-ocean-studies-check-out-the-elisabeth-mann-borgese-finding-aid/
May 22, 2015 - Mills Archive, based in Reading, UK, has been profiled on the UK's National Archives website as a successful case study, after completing a data migration into AtoM and publicly launching earlier this year. On the Mills Archive blog, Liz Bartram notes: "The reason we are being featured as a case study? Representatives from the National Archives came to visit us and were so impressed that they later approached us to ask if we would write a case study about our new online catalogue system so that other archives can learn from what we have achieved."
The National Archives case study comments that "Using AtoM allows the Mills Archive to provide more information at the collections level and it is a better tool for recording and demonstrating the context and the relationship of records with other material compared to the former catalogue." Check it out in the links below:
- Read the Mills Archive blog post: https://millsarchive.org/news/entry/158855/mills-archive-is-featured-on-the-national-archives-website#.VZ-LLvlVhuA
- Read the National Archives case study: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/mills-archive.htm
March - May 2015 - A productive and interactive user forum discussion, with contributions from Artefactual, multiple users, and several developers leads to the repair, enhancement, and documentation of AtoM's OAI-PMH module in the 2.2 release. Community development in action!
- See the User forum thread: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ica-atom-users/6BmOLdLEkPs/discussion
- See the AtoM 2.2 OAI-PMH documentation: https://www.accesstomemory.org/docs/2.2/user-manual/import-export/oai-pmh/
March 31, 2015 - MemoryBC, the portal to archival descriptions in British Columbia maintained by the Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC), upgrades to AtoM 2.1! As one of the first sites ever to begin using ICA-AtoM 1.0.x-beta in production, we are excited to see MemoryBC upgraded.
March 2, 2015 - MAID, the Mennonite Archival Image Database goes live for public use after 2 years of collaborative design and development. A project of the Mennonite Historical Society of Canada which includes Mennonite archival partners in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario, MAID uses AtoM, with some custom features developed by PeaceWorks Technology Solutions of Waterloo (ON, Canada). News of the launch was published here. In the launch announcement, University of Manitoba archives professor is quoted saying that "by using open source code and contributing back to the code base, archives around the world that use AtoM can benefit from the new functionalities created by PeaceWorks for MAID. It is wonderful to see the Canadian Mennonite community working together, embracing digital technologies and contributing to the development of open source technologies."
Seealso
Learn more about the custom plugins that PeaceWorks developed for AtoM on our Community development page
August 15, 2014 - City of Coquitlam Archives launches its new AtoM (2.0.1) catalog - QUEST, the City of Coquitlam Archives Online Search Portal - and receives a write-up in the local paper, Tri-City News. See the new site here: http://searcharchives.coquitlam.ca/atom/
Spring 2014, Pilot Project on AtoM 2.0.1 is launched by the Slovenian Office for Slovenians Abroad. 1250 Archival descriptions, 7 Archival Institutions, and 955 digital objects. View materials in English or Slovenian: Digitalni arhiv Slovencev po svetu supported by ZRC-SAZU, Slovenian Archives in Slovenia, HASA NSW and Slovenian Media House in Australia. Additional support from National Library of Australia.
Spring 2013, Australian National University Archives launches their 1800 collections with ICA-AtoM Software. As one of the original beta testers in 2008, the ANU has dedicated a number of years to getting their data entered into ICA-AtoM (1800 collections, over 1200 creators). The database covers two repositories representing 20 kilometers of archives: the Australian National University Archives and the Noel Butlin Archives Centre (Australian business and labour archives), as well as the virtual repository for Pacific Research Archives.
Winter 2012, Blogpost by University of British Columbia's Rare Books and Special Collections Archivist/Librarian Sarah Romkey, about their current work towards integrating ICA-AtoM and Archivematica.
Fall 2012, Blanca Biarge Gallardo releases an ICA-AtoM User Manual in Spanish for Vidimus a private company specializing in archives and records management. The manual is publicly available as of 2012-10-23.
April - May 2012 Link to User Forum discussion thread with some examples of ICA-AtoM data-entry practices (and suggestion to start this page).
April 2012 - Blog post describing the City of Vancouver Archives' ICA-AtoM installation and migration project.
Update on training workshops for ARCHEION, the Archivists Association of Ontario portal that is run using AtoM (http://www.archeion.ca/).
March 2012 - ESARBICA newsletter includes an article on an EAD Workshop at Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands with discussion about ICA-AtoM (pgs. 3 & 4) View ESARBICA link
July 2012 - Link to the University of British Columbia's Rare Books and Special Collections BLOG describing the use of ICA-AtoM taxonomies for tagging the Douglas Coupland Fonds
Example sites
- This page lists links to some existing AtoM sites
Press releases
Link to Dumbarton Oaks Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives Discovery Portal PRESS RELEASE and HELP PAGE explaining how to use ICA-AtoM as a discovery portal, February 2014: AtoM@DO
Link to The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives Dumbarton Oaks PRESS RELEASE on the ICFA Blog announcing the selection of ICA-AtoM as their Collection Management System (CMS), September 2012: ICFA Blog Post about ICA-AtoM Selection
Link to ARCHEION, the Archivists' Association of Ontario PRESS RELEASE announcing the launch of their portal using ICA-AtoM, December 2011: File:Archeion launch2011 thankyou.pdf (PDF, 85 KB)
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