Updates: January 2018

Please note- this email is now addressed to the entire group of Archon users from the list on the website, the user survey, were part of the update project, or attended Archon Day 2017.  The previous December email was not complete in its distribution.  I know a giant list of email addresses isn't the most convenient or secure, so I'll be looking into an easier way to email everybody, possibly using a mailing listserv type thing. We had a number of folks interested in attending another Archon Day.  Since we are already in 2018, I'll throw Denison University in the ring as a possible hosting location. Anne Salsich has also suggested Oberlin College as a possibility.  Are there any other folks willing to host? If so, please let me know within the next two weeks.  We are at a compressed timeline, so we will need to make plans as soon as possible.

I also have a revised update from Laurie Arp at Lyrasis regarding the Archon/ArchivesSpace Migration Tool:

ArchivesSpace released an updated version of its Archon to ArchivesSpace migration tool in late December. The migration tool is now compatible with the latest version of ArchivesSpace (2.2.2); previous versions were only compatible through v1.4.2. As with previous versions of the migration tool, it can be used by those who haven’t yet migrated from Archon to ArchivesSpace to migrate all of their Archon data with the exception of records from the Audiovisual Self-Assessment Program module or the Books collections manager to ArchivesSpace. Directions and more information are available from the Github repository for the migration tool at https://github.com/archivesspace/archon-migration