Anne-marie | Dumbarton Oaks Repository: Started looking in 2012 Impressed with responsive support AT too focused on archival desc. wanted to be able to export interoperable w/ other catalogs Ingest variety of formats: excel, metadata in various formats, access flexible, hierarchical structures started looking at around 24, quickly down to 8 wanted something to could handle variety of material types wanted a larger user group- collective access had few people using the user forums Migration need to be able to further develop taxonomy functionalities before using AtoM platform agnostic- windows or mac but ran into problems- hung up for about a month Had little IT support Doing some in-house development (plugin) through Artefactual Started with contracted developer in house documentation is still sometimes misleading, over simplified have run into number of bugs timeline has been long Wound up using Artefactual for development rather than contracted developer
Legacy systems- not all have been migrated (image catalog system is next for migration) Have entered som finding aids as data entry (not imported) End users confused because some data had been entered into AtoM some hadn’t
In-house customization vs. sponsorship EAD3 Wish list based on user study No way to search by date, would be nice Addition of preferred citation now using notes field Added accent-insensitive search Shopping cart tool-tips made visible to end-users as explanatory text?
Timelines explosion in US use since 2009 a lot of development have been very responsive on a vareity of platforms but for contracting development look at 3-4 months out fairly large backlog of projects-also working on new versions of AtoM
Internal Validator/EAD exporting Also would be interested in a tool for validating/previewing currently export, run xslt on record, then convert into MARC which can be uploaded to OCLC Would like to see tree view added to AtoM (like what world bank had customized)
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