Archivists’ Toolkit, Version 1.0, Released
Update for 02006 12 18:
Version 1.0 of the Archivists’ Toolkit is now available for download. As noted in the announcement and below, “The AT is the first open source archival data management system to provide integrated support for accessioning, description, donor tracking, name and subject authority work, and location management for archival materials. The effort to build this application has benefited tremendously from the interested guidance of the archival community and was made possible through the generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.” Congratulations to the project team. Now archivists can boast of an open source archival management system that may or will be the equal of something like Koha in the library world.
Source: Cross-posting on ARCAN-L, 02006 12 17
Original post from 02005 08 11:
Announced on the ARCHIVES mailing list (02005 08 10):
“The Archivists’ Toolkit Specification Team is pleased to announce the public release of the functional specification for the Archivists’ Toolkit system, available at: http://archiviststoolkit.org/ATspecification/index.html .
The Archivists’ Toolkit (AT) will be an open source, integrated archival management application that streamlines workflows and standardizes archival information. The AT will provide a single, consistent, and reliable means for managing information related to accessioning, description, resource location, and donors. In addition, the Toolkit will support a variety of outputs,
including EAD (Encoded Archival Description) encoded finding aids and METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) records. …”
