ArchivesSpace
This collection brings together 15 source-verified institutional cases involving ArchivesSpace: AT, MARC & EAD → ArchivesSpace (1), Archivists' Toolkit → ArchivesSpace (2), Archon & HTML → ArchivesSpace (1), Cantab & AtoM → ArchivesSpace (1), EAD → ArchivesSpace (1), Excel / spreadsheets → ArchivesSpace (1), HTML & Word finding aids → ArchivesSpace (1), Legacy cataloguing → ArchivesSpace (1), Legacy databases → ArchivesSpace (1), Legacy storage → Archivematica + ArchivesSpace (1), Legacy → ArchivesSpace (shared) (1), Legacy → ArchivesSpace + Archivematica (1), Microsoft Access → ArchivesSpace (1), Re:discovery Proficio → ArchivesSpace (1). A migration is identified only when the source documents a predecessor or transfer; other cases are classified as implementations or operational adoptions.
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Queensland State Archives
Queensland State Archives built an open-source digital archive under the Queensland Government's Digital Archiving Program, delivered by Gaia Resources with…
Archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)
The Archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bengaluru — a public centre for the history of science in contemporary India, holding over…
Cambridge University Library
Cambridge University Library led a large Archive Management System project to replace Janus — a 20-year-old union catalogue — with ArchivesSpace, launching the…
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh built a comprehensive Digital Archive service on a strictly open-source, modular architecture. Enforcing a 'golden copy' standard,…
Associated Press Corporate Archives
Ahead of a corporate headquarters move in 2017, the Associated Press Corporate Archives needed intellectual control over some 250 historical artifacts alongside…
Center for Jewish History
The Center for Jewish History in New York runs a single, shared ArchivesSpace instance that serves the Center together with its five partner institutions. A…
College of Staten Island, CUNY
In 2018 the Archives and Special Collections of the College of Staten Island (CUNY) began consolidating a scattered mix of legacy metadata into a single…
Columbia University Libraries
Columbia University Libraries ran a large, multi-phase migration of nearly 4,000 records — describing over 70,000 linear feet of material — into a Lyrasis-hosted…
Congregational Library & Archives
The Congregational Library & Archives in Boston — a specialised religious repository with fewer than three full-time staff and no in-house IT — phased out static…
Harvard University
Harvard University migrated more than two decades' worth of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids into ArchivesSpace — a project its authors, Dave Mayo…
Illinois Institute of Technology — Paul V. Galvin Library
The Paul V. Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute of Technology managed roughly 1,500 collections in the legacy Re:discovery Proficio system, for which no…
Minnesota State University, Mankato
With a budget that ruled out commercial hosting, the archives at Minnesota State University, Mankato partnered with campus IT to self-host ArchivesSpace. The small…
Rockefeller Archive Center
An early ArchivesSpace adopter, the Rockefeller Archive Center migrated from Archivists' Toolkit, investing roughly 550 staff hours in the transition. The project…
Taylor University Archives and Special Collections
Taylor University's Archives and Special Collections in Indiana faced an emergency: staff turnover and a dangerously unstable Microsoft Access database that risked…
Yale University
Yale University carried out one of the most thoroughly documented migrations from Archivists' Toolkit to ArchivesSpace, consolidating archival description from…