Archon & HTML → ArchivesSpace
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 team simultaneously migrated more than 700 static HTML finding aids and an ageing Archon database into ArchivesSpace — all while the wider university library was moving to Ex Libris Alma/Primo. Despite the heavy concurrent workload, the migration unified previously fragmented public search into a single, coherent discovery environment. Documented by the staff themselves, it is a realistic account of a mid-sized US university archive self-hosting on a tight budget with institutional IT support.
Original source
ArchivesSpace Adventures: A Migration (Smith & Southworth)
Minnesota State University, Mankato (Cornerstone)
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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