Cantab & AtoM → ArchivesSpace
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 public ArchiveSearch discovery platform in 2021. In total 876,759 records were migrated from 26 legacy systems (chiefly Cantab datasets, two AtoM instances and the bespoke 'Darbase' Darwin archive), and the single system now serves the University Library alongside around 30 partner repositories across the city's colleges, faculties and museums. The team developed local plugins — including publishing at archival-object level — and contributed them back to the ArchivesSpace core. One of the largest, most consortial ArchivesSpace deployments in UK higher education.
Original source
ArchiveSearch: a new discovery platform for archives
Cambridge University Library
The archived copy opens a snapshot on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, preserved for when the original moves or disappears.
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