Open Source Archiving Information System
By admin on Aug 4, 2009 in open source
Archon is award-winning software for archivists and manuscript curators. It automatically publishes archival descriptive information and digital archival objects in a user-friendly website. With Archon, there is no need to encode a finding aid, input a catalog record, or program a stylesheet. Archon’s powerful scripts will automatically make everything in the system searchable and browsable on your repository’s website!
End-users can:
- Simultaneously search descriptions of archival materials, electronic records, and digital objects.
- View, print, and search finding aids for individual collections.
- View, download and use digital objects/electronic records.
- Easily navigate from digital objects to archival descriptions and vice versa.
- Browse materials by collection title, digital object title, controlled subject heading, creator authority record, or archival record group.
- Jump easily between collections and digital objects sharing the same subject, creator, or archival record group.
Archival staff can:
- Create standards-compliant collection descriptions and full finding aids using web forms.
- Describe the series, subseries, files, items, etc. within each collection.
- Organize collections* into record groups and subgroups based on provenance or function.
- Develop creator authorities and controlled subject lists, and link them to collections and digital objects.
- Track locations for containers or groups of containers.
- Upload digital objects/electronic records or link archival descripitions to external URLs.
- edit descriptive information directly from an enhanced public interface by clicking the edit icon:
. - Use an integrated help system by clicking the help buttons:
. - Export MARC and EAD records (for importation to other systems).
- List unprocessed materials in an ‘accessions manager’.
Archon administrators can:
- Define “Repository Level” information such as address, contact information, and overall arrangement scheme.
- Define record groups or other classifications.
- Customize the public interface by tailoring some easy-to-modify HTML/PHP themes.
- Create new output templates to show the data in any way you choose (2 such templates are included with the current Archon Distribution packet).
- Add edit, or delete user accounts, allowing or denying people access to the staff interface.
- Batch import data from MARC, EAD (XML) or CSV format.
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