Legacy → ArchivesSpace (shared)
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 defining challenge of that shared model is governance rather than software: controlled vocabularies — agents, subjects and dropdown enumerations — have to be centralised and normalised across independent partners who had catalogued differently for years, while still allowing partner-specific practices. A leading US example of consortial, multi-repository archival description on a shared open-source platform.
Original source
ArchivesSpace Manual for Local Usage at CJH
Center for Jewish History
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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