Slides accompanying a day-long AtoM and Archivematica workshop, delivered October 17, 2016 at the VII Congresso Nacional de Arquivologia in Fortaleza, Brazil.
These slides introduce AtoM (short for Access to Memory), a flexible, open-source application for standards-based description and access in a multilingual, multi-repository environment.
For more information, visit https://accesstomemory.org/
These slides were first publicly shared as part of the 2019 AtoM Camp, held at the University of Westminster in London, UK, July 15-17, 2019.
The slides include tips, tricks, workarounds, warnings, and gotchas about AtoM that can help orient new users - and hopefully even teach experienced users a couple new things!
For more information about Access to Memory (AtoM), see:
* https://www.accesstomemory.org
These slides accompanied a presentation by Steve Breker of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
These slides are intended for developers who are interested in modifying the default look and feel of AtoM - known as the Dominion theme - and developing a custom theme plugin. They include some theme examples, how to register a plugin in Symfony, and some ideas of the elements you can modify via theming, with examples.
These slides accompanied a presentation by Dan Gillean and Sara Allain of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
In this session, Dan Gillean covered some of key considerations when preparing to migrate data from a legacy source system into AtoM. The slides cover the steps involved, paying specific attention to AtoM's data model and behaviors that should be considered when preparing your data for import into AtoM.
These slides were presented by Dan Gillean at the first ever AtoM Camp, held at the SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 20-22, 2017. For more information on the Camp, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SFU2017
These slides introduce some of the primary Command Line tasks available in Access to Memory (AtoM), which can be used to support site maintenance and troubleshooting. For further information on AtoM CLI tasks, see:
* https://www.accesstomemory.org/docs/latest/admin-manual/maintenance/cli-tools/
* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZiwlG5eSMeyeETe15EsEBSu5htPLK-wm
The CLI tasks introduced in these slides are based on the 2.4 AtoM release - some tasks or task options may not be available in earlier releases; tasks may be changed in future releases.
These slides accompanied a presentation by Dan Gillean and Sara Allain of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
In this session, we took a quick tour of some examples of how AtoM is being implemented by our global community of users. We looked specifically at interesting themes, customizations, or the creative use of existing features such as static pages or repository theming as a way of exploring some of the different ways AtoM can be used. Participants were then invited to come up and show off their AtoM site to the attendees as well.
These slides were first publicly shared as part of the 2019 AtoM Camp, held at the University of Westminster in London, UK, July 15-17, 2019.
They provide users with guidance on how to prepare archival descriptions for import into Access to Memory (AtoM) via CSV import. These slides were prepared against AtoM 2.5, and are accurate for versions 2.3-2.5. Earlier versions may require some minor changes; later releases may introduce changes to the CSV templates not covered here.
You can find the latest CSV import templates for AtoM on our wiki, here:
- https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Resources/CSV_templates
For more information about Access to Memory (AtoM), see:
- https://www.accesstomemory.org
These slides accompanied a presentation by Steve Breker of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see: https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
These slides introduce users to the Access to Memory codebase. You can find AtoM's code at: https://github.com/artefactual/atom/
Building the Future Together: AtoM3, Governance, and the Sustainability of Op...Artefactual Systems - AtoM
Slides accompanying a presentation given by Dan Gillean on June 7th, 2018 at Open Repositories 2018, held in Bozeman, MT.
Access to Memory is a web-based open source application for standards based description and access. AtoM was first released in 2008 and much of the codebase is now relying on deprecated frameworks and libraries – and at the same time, new standards and technologies are changing how our profession approaches description and access. Currently Artefactual Systems, a Canadian based company, uses a services model to support the project. Artefactual is looking ahead to AtoM3, and considering building a linked data driven platform for archival description and access. As we consider AtoM's next generation, we are also examining governance and maintenance models to sustain the project and better empower our user community as Artefactual wasn't originally intended to be AtoM's organizational home. This presentation will offer some thoughts on existing open source project governance models, challenges, and possibilities for the future. How do we ensure community engagement and project sustainability over time?
These slides were first publicly shared as part of the 2019 AtoM Camp, held at the University of Westminster in London, UK, July 15-17, 2019.
The slides include tips, tricks, workarounds, warnings, and gotchas about AtoM that can help orient new users - and hopefully even teach experienced users a couple new things!
For more information about Access to Memory (AtoM), see:
* https://www.accesstomemory.org
These slides accompanied a presentation by Steve Breker of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
These slides are intended for developers who are interested in modifying the default look and feel of AtoM - known as the Dominion theme - and developing a custom theme plugin. They include some theme examples, how to register a plugin in Symfony, and some ideas of the elements you can modify via theming, with examples.
These slides accompanied a presentation by Dan Gillean and Sara Allain of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
In this session, Dan Gillean covered some of key considerations when preparing to migrate data from a legacy source system into AtoM. The slides cover the steps involved, paying specific attention to AtoM's data model and behaviors that should be considered when preparing your data for import into AtoM.
These slides were presented by Dan Gillean at the first ever AtoM Camp, held at the SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 20-22, 2017. For more information on the Camp, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SFU2017
These slides introduce some of the primary Command Line tasks available in Access to Memory (AtoM), which can be used to support site maintenance and troubleshooting. For further information on AtoM CLI tasks, see:
* https://www.accesstomemory.org/docs/latest/admin-manual/maintenance/cli-tools/
* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZiwlG5eSMeyeETe15EsEBSu5htPLK-wm
The CLI tasks introduced in these slides are based on the 2.4 AtoM release - some tasks or task options may not be available in earlier releases; tasks may be changed in future releases.
These slides accompanied a presentation by Dan Gillean and Sara Allain of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
In this session, we took a quick tour of some examples of how AtoM is being implemented by our global community of users. We looked specifically at interesting themes, customizations, or the creative use of existing features such as static pages or repository theming as a way of exploring some of the different ways AtoM can be used. Participants were then invited to come up and show off their AtoM site to the attendees as well.
These slides were first publicly shared as part of the 2019 AtoM Camp, held at the University of Westminster in London, UK, July 15-17, 2019.
They provide users with guidance on how to prepare archival descriptions for import into Access to Memory (AtoM) via CSV import. These slides were prepared against AtoM 2.5, and are accurate for versions 2.3-2.5. Earlier versions may require some minor changes; later releases may introduce changes to the CSV templates not covered here.
You can find the latest CSV import templates for AtoM on our wiki, here:
- https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Resources/CSV_templates
For more information about Access to Memory (AtoM), see:
- https://www.accesstomemory.org
These slides accompanied a presentation by Steve Breker of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see: https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
These slides introduce users to the Access to Memory codebase. You can find AtoM's code at: https://github.com/artefactual/atom/
Building the Future Together: AtoM3, Governance, and the Sustainability of Op...Artefactual Systems - AtoM
Slides accompanying a presentation given by Dan Gillean on June 7th, 2018 at Open Repositories 2018, held in Bozeman, MT.
Access to Memory is a web-based open source application for standards based description and access. AtoM was first released in 2008 and much of the codebase is now relying on deprecated frameworks and libraries – and at the same time, new standards and technologies are changing how our profession approaches description and access. Currently Artefactual Systems, a Canadian based company, uses a services model to support the project. Artefactual is looking ahead to AtoM3, and considering building a linked data driven platform for archival description and access. As we consider AtoM's next generation, we are also examining governance and maintenance models to sustain the project and better empower our user community as Artefactual wasn't originally intended to be AtoM's organizational home. This presentation will offer some thoughts on existing open source project governance models, challenges, and possibilities for the future. How do we ensure community engagement and project sustainability over time?
Access to Memory (AtoM) is an open source web application for standards-based archival description and access - learn more at:
https://www.accesstomemory.org
These slides will provide users with an overview of how search works in AtoM, along with a detailed walkthrough of using the Advanced search panel, and performing Expert searches in AtoM.
The slides were originally created by Dan Gillean, AtoM Program Manager, for use in a series of training workshops delivered July 9-13, 2018 at the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. The slides are based on current functionality in AtoM release 2.4.
AtoM and Vagrant: Installing and Configuring the AtoM Vagrant Box for Local T...Artefactual Systems - AtoM
These slides introduce AtoM users to Vagrant, and walk users through the process of installing the the AtoM Vagrant box for local testing and development on a home computer or laptop, regardless of what operating system you use.
WARNINGS:
These slides were last updated in May 2017, using the AtoM 2.4 Vagrant box, which is installed using Ubuntu 16.04. and PHP 7.0. Future versions of AtoM may use a different version of Ubuntu and PHP, which might change some of the command-line tasks used to update the box in Part 2. Be sure to check the AtoM documentation for the most up-to-date information: https://www.accesstomemory.org/docs/latest/
The AtoM Vagrant box is designed for local testing and development - it is NOT PRODUCTION READY and should not be used for long-term data storage. Please see the AtoM documentation for instructions on how to install AtoM on a server for use in your institution.
These slides accompanied a presentation by Steve Breker of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
These slides provide advanced users with an overview of AtoM's data model, and demonstrate how a graphical user interface application such as MySQL Workbench can be used to explore the AtoM MySQL database from the back-end. The slides include a number of example queries.
Slides accompanying a day-long introduction to AtoM and Archivematica, presented by Dan Gillean and Justin Simpson at the UK National Archives as part of an AIM25 and Higher Education Archive Programme Network Meeting, December 2, 2016.
These slides accompanied a presentation by Steve Breker of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
These slides are intended for programmers interested in developing new features for Access to Memory. They first provide an overview of the feature development proccess, and then look at the different types of development typically pursued (plugins, CLI tasks, Background jobs, and core features), with tips and suggestions for each.
Slides accompanying a presentation delivered at the VII Congresso Nacional de Arquivologia in Fortaleza, Brazil, on October 19th, 2016. The slides provide an overview of the AtoM project's history, its maintenance by Artefactual, and its development philosophy, before proceeding to examine the application as a component used in a digital preservation ecosystem. Aspects of ISO 16363:2012, the Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories standard, are used to evaluate how AtoM can support description, management, administration, and access functions when used to maintain a chain of custody in a trustworthy digital repository ecosystem.
The Future of Archives is Participatory: A New Mission for ArchivesKate Theimer
Talk prepared for the Open Archives 2.1 Conference in April 2014. I've posted a version of the talk that accompanied these slides on the ArchivesNext blog: http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=3700.
Slides used to introduce the technical aspects of DSpace-CRIS to the technical staff of the Hamburg University of Technology.
Main topics:
The DSpace-CRIS data model: additional entities, interactions with the DSpace data model (authority framework), enhanced metadata, inverse relationship
ORCID integration & technical details: available features & use cases (authentication, authorization, profile claiming, profile synchronization push & pull, registry lookup), configuration, API-KEY, use of the sandbox, metadata mapping
Digital asset management (dam) systems used in LibrariesHong (Jenny) Jing
This project is started in Sept. 2014 and the purpose of it is to:
• Investigate and report on options for Institutional Repository (IR), Digital Asset Management (DAM), and related tools. (This research does not cover Research Data Management (RDM) and Electronic Document Records Management (EDRM).)
• Assess implications for implementation in the Queen’s environment.
• Set up instance of Islandora as a way to demonstrate answers to questions about implementing an IR/DAM.
Caching is a technique to save frequently used data into into temporary location. Improves application performance. Reduce a lot of server resources at peak times.
Alfresco DevCon 2019 (Edinburgh)
"Transforming the Transformers" for Alfresco Content Services (ACS) 6.1 & beyond
https://community.alfresco.com/community/ecm/blog/2019/02/07/alfresco-transform-service-new-with-acs-61
Alfresco provides various content transformation options across the Digital Business Platform (DBP). In this talk, we will explore the new independently-scalable Alfresco Transform Service. This enables a new option for transforms to be asynchronously off-loaded by Alfresco Content Services (ACS).
https://devcon.alfresco.com/speaker/jan-vonka/
Slide deck from an Alfresco Webinar which can be viewed at http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/webcasts/2009/05/alfresco-webcast-a-developers-guide-1-capabilities-architecture-optaros/
This presentation discusses what Alfresco is an options for working with Alfresco from a developer perspective.
Technologie Proche: Imagining the Archival Systems of Tomorrow With the Tools...Artefactual Systems - AtoM
These slides accompanied a June 4th, 2016 presentation made by Dan Gillean of Artefactual Systems at the Association of Canadian Archivists' 2016 Conference in Montreal, QC, Canada.
This presentation aims to examine several existing or emerging computing paradigms, with specific examples, to imagine how they might inform next-generation archival systems to support digital preservation, description, and access. Topics covered include:
- Distributed Version Control and git
- P2P architectures and the BitTorrent protocol
- Linked Open Data and RDF
- Blockchain technology
The session is part of an attempt by the ACA to create interactive "working sessions" at its conferences. Accompanying notes can be found at: http://bit.ly/tech-Proche
Participants were also asked to use the Twitter hashtag of #techProche for online interaction during the session.
Access to Memory (AtoM) is an open source web application for standards-based archival description and access - learn more at:
https://www.accesstomemory.org
These slides will provide users with an overview of how search works in AtoM, along with a detailed walkthrough of using the Advanced search panel, and performing Expert searches in AtoM.
The slides were originally created by Dan Gillean, AtoM Program Manager, for use in a series of training workshops delivered July 9-13, 2018 at the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. The slides are based on current functionality in AtoM release 2.4.
AtoM and Vagrant: Installing and Configuring the AtoM Vagrant Box for Local T...Artefactual Systems - AtoM
These slides introduce AtoM users to Vagrant, and walk users through the process of installing the the AtoM Vagrant box for local testing and development on a home computer or laptop, regardless of what operating system you use.
WARNINGS:
These slides were last updated in May 2017, using the AtoM 2.4 Vagrant box, which is installed using Ubuntu 16.04. and PHP 7.0. Future versions of AtoM may use a different version of Ubuntu and PHP, which might change some of the command-line tasks used to update the box in Part 2. Be sure to check the AtoM documentation for the most up-to-date information: https://www.accesstomemory.org/docs/latest/
The AtoM Vagrant box is designed for local testing and development - it is NOT PRODUCTION READY and should not be used for long-term data storage. Please see the AtoM documentation for instructions on how to install AtoM on a server for use in your institution.
These slides accompanied a presentation by Steve Breker of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
These slides provide advanced users with an overview of AtoM's data model, and demonstrate how a graphical user interface application such as MySQL Workbench can be used to explore the AtoM MySQL database from the back-end. The slides include a number of example queries.
Slides accompanying a day-long introduction to AtoM and Archivematica, presented by Dan Gillean and Justin Simpson at the UK National Archives as part of an AIM25 and Higher Education Archive Programme Network Meeting, December 2, 2016.
These slides accompanied a presentation by Steve Breker of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
These slides are intended for programmers interested in developing new features for Access to Memory. They first provide an overview of the feature development proccess, and then look at the different types of development typically pursued (plugins, CLI tasks, Background jobs, and core features), with tips and suggestions for each.
Slides accompanying a presentation delivered at the VII Congresso Nacional de Arquivologia in Fortaleza, Brazil, on October 19th, 2016. The slides provide an overview of the AtoM project's history, its maintenance by Artefactual, and its development philosophy, before proceeding to examine the application as a component used in a digital preservation ecosystem. Aspects of ISO 16363:2012, the Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories standard, are used to evaluate how AtoM can support description, management, administration, and access functions when used to maintain a chain of custody in a trustworthy digital repository ecosystem.
The Future of Archives is Participatory: A New Mission for ArchivesKate Theimer
Talk prepared for the Open Archives 2.1 Conference in April 2014. I've posted a version of the talk that accompanied these slides on the ArchivesNext blog: http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=3700.
Slides used to introduce the technical aspects of DSpace-CRIS to the technical staff of the Hamburg University of Technology.
Main topics:
The DSpace-CRIS data model: additional entities, interactions with the DSpace data model (authority framework), enhanced metadata, inverse relationship
ORCID integration & technical details: available features & use cases (authentication, authorization, profile claiming, profile synchronization push & pull, registry lookup), configuration, API-KEY, use of the sandbox, metadata mapping
Digital asset management (dam) systems used in LibrariesHong (Jenny) Jing
This project is started in Sept. 2014 and the purpose of it is to:
• Investigate and report on options for Institutional Repository (IR), Digital Asset Management (DAM), and related tools. (This research does not cover Research Data Management (RDM) and Electronic Document Records Management (EDRM).)
• Assess implications for implementation in the Queen’s environment.
• Set up instance of Islandora as a way to demonstrate answers to questions about implementing an IR/DAM.
Caching is a technique to save frequently used data into into temporary location. Improves application performance. Reduce a lot of server resources at peak times.
Alfresco DevCon 2019 (Edinburgh)
"Transforming the Transformers" for Alfresco Content Services (ACS) 6.1 & beyond
https://community.alfresco.com/community/ecm/blog/2019/02/07/alfresco-transform-service-new-with-acs-61
Alfresco provides various content transformation options across the Digital Business Platform (DBP). In this talk, we will explore the new independently-scalable Alfresco Transform Service. This enables a new option for transforms to be asynchronously off-loaded by Alfresco Content Services (ACS).
https://devcon.alfresco.com/speaker/jan-vonka/
Slide deck from an Alfresco Webinar which can be viewed at http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/webcasts/2009/05/alfresco-webcast-a-developers-guide-1-capabilities-architecture-optaros/
This presentation discusses what Alfresco is an options for working with Alfresco from a developer perspective.
Technologie Proche: Imagining the Archival Systems of Tomorrow With the Tools...Artefactual Systems - AtoM
These slides accompanied a June 4th, 2016 presentation made by Dan Gillean of Artefactual Systems at the Association of Canadian Archivists' 2016 Conference in Montreal, QC, Canada.
This presentation aims to examine several existing or emerging computing paradigms, with specific examples, to imagine how they might inform next-generation archival systems to support digital preservation, description, and access. Topics covered include:
- Distributed Version Control and git
- P2P architectures and the BitTorrent protocol
- Linked Open Data and RDF
- Blockchain technology
The session is part of an attempt by the ACA to create interactive "working sessions" at its conferences. Accompanying notes can be found at: http://bit.ly/tech-Proche
Participants were also asked to use the Twitter hashtag of #techProche for online interaction during the session.
Slides accompanying a day-long AtoM and Archivematica workshop, delivered October 17, 2016 at the VII Congresso Nacional de Arquivologia in Fortaleza, Brazil.
These slides introduce Open Source and Free Software definitions, and proceed to outline Artefactual's approach to open source development and maintenance of the AtoM and Archivematica projects.
A difícil tarefa de manter a Cadeia de Custódia Digital dos Documentos Arquiv...Daniel Flores
Referências:
FLORES, Daniel. A difícil tarefa de manter a Cadeia de Custódia Digital dos Documentos Arquivísticos: Autênticos ou Autenticados. Rio de Janeiro - RJ. 97 slides, color, Padrão Slides Google Drive/Docs 4x3. Material elaborado para a Palestra no CENDOC - Centro de Documentação da Aeronáutica, de 13 a 15 de janeiro de 2016. Disponível em: <http: />. Acesso em: 13 de janeiro 2016.
Brève présentation de l'installation et de quelques fonctionnalités de l'application CollectiveAccess, utile pour la gestion et la valorisation de collections de musées, d'archives, etc.
Open Source Content Management Systems for Small and Medium Businesses, Chari...Will Hall
How can open source CMS's meet the particular challenges that running SME's, NGO's or charities involve? Whether you run a small business, non-governmental organisation or charity, the potential for spending hundreds of thousands of pound on software to assist with the running of your business is untenable, however, how far can open-source software (and particularly content management systems) enable your business to evolve, thrive and even surpass your expectations. In my presentation I intend to discuss; what your content is and how to use it to your advantage when running a complex operation with limited resources. The advantages and disadvantages of utilising open source software and how you can leverage the community to gain support and expertise. What the future for open source projects are and how you can ensure your business/organisation/charity can continue its work into Web 3.0
There's a lot of tech to choose from when it comes to web development. But only the best will do! Read this guide and find out which technologies are the best for your business.
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Open Source Web Content Management StrategiesKStod
DotNetNuke Co-Founder Shaun Walker shares "Effective Strategies for Evaluating and Eeploying Open Source Content Management Tools" at the Gilbane Conference 2010 in San Francisco
Joomla Chicago Meeting July, 2009: CMS CageMatch IIJohn Coonen
JoomlaChicago July 2009 meeting presentation led by David Steele of the Acquity Group. Comparison of four top Open Source Web Content Management Systems currently on the market for enterprise use: Alfresco, Drupal, Joomla and Magnolia.
[Workshop] Building an Integration Agile Digital Enterprise with Open Source ...WSO2
Today, transforming a conventional business into a digital one is essential to increase revenue and productivity. Integrating heterogeneous systems and building an ecosystem with integrated components is a fundamental requirement for this.
Most modern systems support integration with other systems through APIs that are exposed to well-known protocols and standards. However, it is hard to expect all existing systems of an organization to be capable of integrating with other systems. Certain legacy systems will only be replaced a few years down the line.
Therefore, the challenge is to drive all these existing systems towards integration. In this half-day workshop, we will discuss how you can use the lean, enterprise-ready, and high-performing WSO2 Integration platform to solve integration and innovation challenges that organizations face when performing brownfield integration.
Discussion topics include:
- The benefits of using open source technologies
- Managing an API lifecycle with open source technologies
- Upleveling brownfield integration with open source technologies
- Customer identity and access management with open source technologies
Want to join us at an interactive workshop? Find out where we'll be headed next - https://wso2.com/events/workshops/
These slides were presented by Dan Gillean, AtoM Program Manager with Artefactual Systems, to provide an update on the AtoM 2.5 release and long-term AtoM3 news to the UK regional AtoM users group meeting held in Glasgow on May 17, 2019. For more information on this group see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Groups/UK
Fore more information on the AtoM 2.5 release, please see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Releases/Release_announcements/Release_2.5
Access to Memory (AtoM) is an open source web application for standards-based archival description and access - learn more at:
https://www.accesstomemory.org
To provide users with an easy to install local environment for testing and development, Artefactual maintains a version of AtoM that can be installed on a laptop or home computer, regardless of operating system. We have slides that will explain what Vagrant is and how to install the AtoM Vagrant box here:
http://bit.ly/AtoM-Vagrant
These slides will help users create a re-usable set of data for use in a local AtoM Vagrant environment. Having a set of data that can easily be reloaded will make the AtoM Vagrant box more useful to local testers and developers.
The slides were originally created by Dan Gillean, AtoM Program Manager, for use in a series of training workshops delivered July 9-13, 2018 at the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. The slides are based on current functionality in AtoM release 2.4 - they have been tested in the AtoM 2.4.0.2 and 2.5.0.0 Vagrant boxes.
These slides accompanied a presentation by Dan Gillean and Sara Allain of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
In this session, we looked at the history of the AtoM project, the current governance and maintenance model for AtoM that Artefactual Systems maintains, as well as several other open source business models and stakeholders as we consider ways in which governance and maintenance might look different in the future. Finally, we looked at the state of the application at present with an eye to the future - exploring how changes in international standards and web technologies provide an opportunity to consider what AtoM 3 might look like. The session was followed by open discussion.
These slides accompanied a presentation by Dan Gillean of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
In 2013, with the introduction of AtoM 2.0, Artefactual began a fresh rewrite of all the Access to Memory documentation, using Sphinx Documentation as the primary platform. These slides provide some context and background for this change, introduce Sphinx and reStructuredText, and go on to outline step by step how AtoM users can contribute to the AtoM documentation.
This worksheet accompanied a presentation by Steve Breker of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
The presentation focused on the installation of Access to Memory, and the slides from it can be seen here:
https://www.slideshare.net/accesstomemory/installing-and-upgrading-atom
This handout showed attendees how Ansible can be used to automate the deployment process of AtoM, using the publicly available Ansible playbooks. You can find Artefactual's Ansible playbooks at:
https://github.com/artefactual/deploy-pub
These slides accompanied a presentation by Steve Breker of Artefactual Systems, delivered as part of AtoM Camp Cambridge, a three-day boot camp held at St John's College, Cambridge University, May 9-11, 2017 For more information, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SJC2017
These slides provide developers and system administrators with some suggestions on how to install, maintain, and upgrade Access to Memory. They are intended to supplement the offficial installation documentation, found in the Atom Administrator's Manual:
https://www.accesstomemory.org/docs/latest/
These slides were presented by Dan Gillean at the first ever AtoM Camp, held at the SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 20-22, 2017. For more information on the Camp, see:
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Camps/SFU2017
These slides introduce participants to basic commands in the linux/unix command-line interface, for navigation and basic tasks such as reading, creating, deleting, and moving files. The slides were intended as an initial introduction for archivists unfamiliar with using the command-line, prior to teaching them about the command-line tasks available in Access to Memory (AtoM), which can be used for maintenance and troubleshooting.
Presentation made as part of a community update during Code4Arc, a day-long workshop organized as a part of Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia, Monday, March 7 2016.
See:
* http://2016.code4lib.org/
* http://code4lib.org/
* https://www.accesstomemory.org
Project Documentation with Sphinx (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Lov...Artefactual Systems - AtoM
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This talk covered our move from using wikis for project documentation with the Access to Memory (AtoM) project, to using Sphinx documentation with the AtoM 2.0.0 release.
More on AtoM: https://www.accesstomemory.org
More on Sphinx Documentation: http://sphinx-doc.org/
Code4Lib BC: http://wiki.code4lib.org/BC
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For more information on AtoM, see: https://www.accesstomemory.org
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Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
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Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
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The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
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Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
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In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
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Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
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3. Web based: Once installed, you only need a
modern web browser and an internet connection
to connect to the application from anywhere
Standards-based: AtoM implements existing
national and international archival content and
metadata transmission standards and best
practices, so your data is standards compliant and
interoperable
Multilingual: Supports translations of both content
and user interface elements, can be used as a
multilingual catalogue
Multi-repository: Can be used as a portal site,
content aggregator, or union catalogue to provide
access to content from multiple institutions
What is AtoM?AtoM stands for
Access to Memory
It is a web-based, open
source application for
standards-based archival
description and access in
a multilingual, multi-
repository environment.
4. Web-based:
platformindependent
Browser-based user interface.
• Anyone with access to a browser (e.g., Chrome,
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari etc.) has access to all
the features and functionality of the AtoM application.
Platform independent application.
• The application runs on a web server that can be
installed and run on many platforms.
5. Opensource:
freeasinfreedom
AtoM is built with open source
tools (NGINX, MySQL, Symfony,
Elasticsearch), rather than
proprietary (i.e., closed-source).
The underlying software code of
AtoM is open source.
Free to use
Free to modify
Free to share
6. Opensource:
freeasinfreedom
Documentation is freely available
Public User Forum for troubleshooting
and community-building
Wiki with community resources, example
users, etc.
YouTube video tutorials and webinar
recordings
12. 20192013
1.x
AtoM’S DEVELOPMENT
2.22.0 2.42.3
JOB SCHEDULER
2.0.1 2.1.1
2.1
2.2.11.3.1
CLIPBOARD
AtoM 2.4
• Full bulk import / export via the user
interface
• Search index improvements
• Authority records and repositories on
the Clipboard
14. You can find many more examples of AtoM sites from around the world on our wiki Users page. If you
don’t see your institution’s AtoM installation listed here and would like to, please send us an email
and we will be happy to add it!
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Community/Users
15. To support the original and ongoing aims of the project, AtoM has always been, and will continue to be, released as open source software - currently, we release it under a strong viral license (AGPLv3) to
ensure that the application is not forked or incorporated by someone wishing to charge access to its enhancements. In maintaining our commitment to the original project aims, we also seek in every way
we can to lower or remove barriers to the project resources: to this end, Artefactual not only releases the code via our Downloads page and our code repository, we also make our documentation available,
our webinar recordings, our wiki resources, our presentation slides, and even as much free support as we can offer via the AtoM user forum, all free of charge. With every major release, we also budget time
to review and address many of the bugs reported to us by our user community, with the hope of seeing the project improve progressively in both large and small ways with each public release. To sustain
ourselves as a business and be able to continue maintaining and developing AtoM, Artefactual also offer additional paid services - including application hosting, consultation, training, theming, data
migrations, and of course, custom development. This business model is sometimes known as "Professional open source" - at Artefactual, we think of it as the Bounty model of open-source development. As a
company, we use our resources from these additional services to continue supporting the ongoing maintenance work required to keep the AtoM project sustainable and growing.
Every time we are contracted to develop a custom feature for an institution, we work with the client to ensure the feature respects established national and international standards, and we try to generalize
its implementation so it can not only meet the use case of the institution in question, but also be of benefit to the entire AtoM user community. We then include all of these enhancements in the next public
release. Whenever possible, we also accept bug fixes and code contributions from our user community, and will handle the review and merging of this code into public releases, as well as its maintenance
through subsequent releases, thereby reducing the burden on individual contributors over time. We have a number of development resources on our wiki to help users get started.
This is the community-based development heart of the AtoM project. The growth and direction of AtoM is determined by the individuals and institutions who recognize that open-source software requires
maintenance to continue to be viable and relevant in the long-term, and who sponsor features, enhancements, and bug fixes that will benefit the project as a whole in addition to meeting their particular
institutional or individual needs. This means that AtoM, as an application, is truly what our community makes of it - the current version, like all versions before it, has been made possible thanks to
contributions large and small from dozens of institutions and individuals. You can see this on the release announcements we maintain and on the Roadmap part of our wiki for the upcoming releases, where
we try to acknowledge all the different institutions and individuals that have helped to make the new features possible. This is one of the joys of community-based development - seeing what we can
accomplish as a community when we are all working towards common goals. It also means that institutions with more resources are able to invest in solutions that not only meet their needs, but also
benefit the community at large and assist smaller, under-resourced institutions to have access to the same tools and applications. Everyone benefits from any single contribution - whether it is development
or contributions to the project in other ways (documentation, user forum participation, papers and presentations, provision of services by other service providers, formation of user groups, and more).
Whenever possible, we try to provide further avenues for connection and dissemination of resources via the user forum and places like the Community resources section of the wiki.
Development Philosophy
Community-based development Bounty model of business
• Standards-based
• Open source / Creative Commons
• Multilingual support
• Generalize specific use cases
• Include all features in public release
• Iterative development via multiple
contributions over subsequent
releases
• Maintain: documentation, software,
wiki,
• Produce additional resources (e.g.
videos, presentations, webinars)
• Participate in user forum
• Offer additional paid services
• Always include development in
public project
16. Because the code is open to
inspection, any member of
the community can fix
problems, or develop new
features and contribute code
back. For any given problem,
the community can
troubleshoot it together.
We pull requests!
Development Philosophy
https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Development#Development_resources
18. RESOURCESAtoM homepage: https://www.accesstomemory.org
AtoM demo: http://demo.accesstomemory.org
Roadmap: https://wiki.accesstomemory.org/Releases/Roadmap
Documentation: https://www.accesstomemory.org/docs/latest/
User forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ica-atom-users
Editor's Notes
AtoM is short for Access to Memory. It is a web-based, open source application for standards-based archival description and access in a multilingual, multi-repository environment. Now that’s a mouthful, so we’re going to break down each of these elements a bit more in the following slides.
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Web based: Once installed, you only need a modern web browser and an internet connection to connect to the application from anywhere
Standards-based: AtoM implements existing national and international archival content and metadata transmission standards and best practices, so your data is standards compliant and interoperable
Multilingual: Supports translations of both content and user interface elements, can be used as a multilingual catalogue
Multi-repository: Can be used as a portal site, content aggregator, or union catalogue to provide access to content from multiple institutions
Web-based: All user interactions with the system (add, view, search, edit, and delete actions) take place through a web browser. Users access HTML pages on the web server; clicking a button or link triggers a PHP script that sends a command to the database and returns the output as HTML back to the user’s browser. Once installed, you can view or edit AtoM descriptions from anywhere, with nothing but a web browser and an internet connection.
Platform independent: AtoM was built using open-source tools that can be installed or virtualized on any number of platforms. The team at Artefactual prefers to use Nginx as our web server in both development and production environments, but Apache has been tested and used successfully by our community as well.
The underlying AtoM code is itself open source, with the source code freely available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit (under the A-GPL version 3 license). The Affero General Public License version 3 makes the source code available for users, enables collaboration between developers of web services and other networked software. Therefore there is no cost to download any of the software required to run the AtoM application – use it with or without Artefactual support. You are also free to study the code, modify it, distribute your modifications, and even offer your own additional services for AtoM.
We also do everything we can to enrich our user community with additional resources and ensure there are no barriers or paywalls to using the application. Our documentation is also freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY SA), and we maintain and actively participate in a free public User forum. The creative commons license means that, like the application itself, you are free to share, copy and redistribute our docs in any medium, and you can adapt the materials for any purpose, so long as you give appropriate credit and distribute your contributions under the same license.
We also maintain a wiki with additional resources, including a list of those created by our community, and try to regularly provide free webinar recordings and video tutorials via our YouTube channel.
Standards based: Part of ensuring that AtoM metadata remains interoperable and embracing a larger community is to provide compliance with international and national content standards.
AtoM aims to simplify description – content standards such as ISAD(g) and others are internally mapped to metadata standards (e.g. EAD or XML) so users can enter data in familiar fields. We crosswalk each additional standards based template, so you can easily switch to a different display standard (such as the Canadian RAD standard, the U.S DACS standard, MODS, or Dublin Core) without having to change your data. Helpful tooltips drawn straight from the standards are provided with every field. Users can even set different display standards within the same repository – and even within different levels of the same archival unit!
Multilingual: All user interface elements and database content can be translated into multiple languages, using our built-in translation interface. At installation, AtoM also includes many default user interface translations, all generously provided by volunteer translators from the AtoM User Community. If you are interested in contributing translations to our user community, we have resources on our wiki to help you get started!
In AtoM you can create a multi-repository portal in which each archival institution can customize its own page with a logo and banner, a custom background color, and custom content using HTML and in-line CSS.
Select a background color with an intuitive color picker
Add an API key and enable Dynamic Google Maps to identify the location of your repository from the address information entered
Repository logo and background color will appear on all related descriptions throughout AtoM to distinguish them in a multi-repository environment
The Search box can toggle between global search and repository-specific searching.
Archivematica integration: And of course, AtoM comes with built-in integration with the other open source application developed by Artefactual Systems: Archivematica. Archivematica will allow you to ingest diverse digital materials and run them through standards-based workflows that follow the OAIS reference model, to produce interoperable, system agnostic Archival Information Packages (AIPs) for long-term preservation. Archivematica will also normalize your digital object masters into smaller, user-friendly access formats for dissemination, based on user-adjustable policy rules. This Dissemination Information Package (DIP) can then be uploaded to an existing description in AtoM for arrangement, further description, and access. AtoM will store a Unique Universal Identifier (UUID) for both the original file and the source AIP, preserving a link between your access copy and your preserved content.
AtoM was originally developed out of a collaborative effort between the International Council on Archives and UNESCO, with seed funding support from institutions such as The Hogeschool Van Amsterdam Archiefschool, Direction des Archives de France, the World Bank Group Archives, and the United Arab Emirates Centre for Documentation and Research. The 1.0-beta release of the application was launched at the 2008 ICA Congress in Kuala Lumpur, and the first non-beta release, version 1.1, was released in late 2010 after a long period of beta testing with dozens of institutions.
We’ve come a long way since then! In October of 2013, we released the 2.0 version of AtoM, which included an improved search index for better scalability and performance, a new user interface look and feel, faceted search and browse, and more. We also launched a new website, and began overhauling the project documentation. The project continues to grow and improve with every major release, and we are currently preparing for our 2.4 release in 2017.
The AtoM project has a vibrant international community of users. This map shows all the different locales where AtoM has been installed, up to version 2.1 – and these are just the places we know of.
You can find many more examples of AtoM sites from around the world on our wiki Users page. If you don’t see your institution’s AtoM installation listed here and would like to, please send us an email and we will be happy to add it!
To support the original and ongoing aims of the project, AtoM has always been, and will continue to be, released as open source software - currently, we release it under a strong viral license (AGPLv3) to ensure that the application is not forked or incorporated by someone wishing to charge access to its enhancements. In maintaining our commitment to the original project aims, we also seek in every way we can to lower or remove barriers to the project resources: to this end, Artefactual not only releases the code via our Downloads page and our code repository, we also make our documentation available, our webinar recordings, our wiki resources, our presentation slides, and even as much free support as we can offer via the AtoM user forum, all free of charge. With every major release, we also budget time to review and address many of the bugs reported to us by our user community, with the hope of seeing the project improve progressively in both large and small ways with each public release. To sustain ourselves as a business and be able to continue maintaining and developing AtoM, Artefactual also offer additional paid services - including application hosting, consultation, training, theming, data migrations, and of course, custom development. This business model is sometimes known as "Professional open source" - at Artefactual, we think of it as the Bounty model of open-source development. As a company, we use our resources from these additional services to continue supporting the ongoing maintenance work required to keep the AtoM project sustainable and growing.
Every time we are contracted to develop a custom feature for an institution, we work with the client to ensure the feature respects established national and international standards, and we try to generalize its implementation so it can not only meet the use case of the institution in question, but also be of benefit to the entire AtoM user community. We then include all of these enhancements in the next public release. Whenever possible, we also accept bug fixes and code contributions from our user community, and will handle the review and merging of this code into public releases, as well as its maintenance through subsequent releases, thereby reducing the burden on individual contributors over time. We have a number of development resources on our wiki to help users get started.
This is the community-based development heart of the AtoM project. The growth and direction of AtoM is determined by the individuals and institutions who recognize that open-source software requires maintenance to continue to be viable and relevant in the long-term, and who sponsor features, enhancements, and bug fixes that will benefit the project as a whole in addition to meeting their particular institutional or individual needs. This means that AtoM, as an application, is truly what our community makes of it - the current version, like all versions before it, has been made possible thanks to contributions large and small from dozens of institutions and individuals. You can see this on the release announcements we maintain and on the Roadmap part of our wiki for the upcoming releases, where we try to acknowledge all the different institutions and individuals that have helped to make the new features possible. This is one of the joys of community-based development - seeing what we can accomplish as a community when we are all working towards common goals. It also means that institutions with more resources are able to invest in solutions that not only meet their needs, but also benefit the community at large and assist smaller, under-resourced institutions to have access to the same tools and applications. Everyone benefits from any single contribution - whether it is development or contributions to the project in other ways (documentation, user forum participation, papers and presentations, provision of services by other service providers, formation of user groups, and more). Whenever possible, we try to provide further avenues for connection and dissemination of resources via the user forum and places like the Community resources section of the wiki.