ArchivesSpace (or ASpace for short) is a server whose main purpose is to host a software program also named… ArchivesSpace. The program is “an open source archives information management application for managing and providing web access to archives, manuscripts and digital objects”. The server also hosts a few auxiliary programs who take the output from ArchivesSpace and convert it into various other formats, which are then made available via an Apache webserver on the same machine.
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Location | Format | Number of collections described | Source | Example | Who can see it? |
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| Word documents | Roughly 270, dates 1997 – present. | This is the original collection description. |
| Institute staff |
ArchivesSpace site | MySQL-backed website | Roughly 45 as of 2020 | Entered manually based on the P drive Word files. | https://archives.sciencehistory.org/resources/81#tree::resource_81 | Only logged in ArchivesSpace users |
ArchivesSpace Apache front end | EAD (xml format) | Roughly 45 as of 2020 | Generated hourly from ArchivesSpace database | https://archives.sciencehistory.org/ead/scihist-2012-021.xml | Public |
ArchivesSpace Apache front end | HTML | Roughly 45 as of 2020 | Generated hourly from ArchivesSpace database | Public | |
OPAC | PDF? | 460; see complete list | Exported manually as PDF from the ArchivesSpace site, then attached to the OPAC record for the collection | https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/articles/1065801.15134/1.PDF | Public |
https://guides.othmerlibrary.sciencehistory.org/friendly.php?s=CHFArchives | LibGuide | Most collections, categorized by subject. | ? | Technically public, but does not appear to be linked from anywhere. |
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The current production version of Aspace is 2.7.1 .
Terminal access: ssh -i /path/to/production/pem_file.pem ubuntu@50.16.132.240
The ubuntu user owns all the admin scripts.
The relevant Ansible role is: /roles/archivesspace/ in the ansible-inventory codebase.
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