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Archivists’ Toolkit Version 1.0 Available for Download<br>
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"The University of California, San Diego, New York University, and
the Five Colleges, Inc. are pleased to announce the release of the
Archivists’ Toolkit™ Version 1.0. It is available for download at
<a href="http://www.archiviststoolkit.org/">
http://www.archiviststoolkit.org/</a>. The Archivists’ Toolkit™ is being
offered under an Educational Community License (ECL). <br>
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."<br><br>
While the larger Yale repositories already have systems in place for
accessioning, donor tracking, etc. and we are developing a customized
Yale finding aid authoring tool, I wonder if anyone would want to put in
a proposal to investigate the Archivists' Toolkit's utility for Yale
repositories. The next version of the Archivists' Toolkit will
support "user registration / use tracking, rights management,
appraisal, and making the AT application interoperable with user
authentication systems and digital repository applications."<br>
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Martha Lund Smalley<br>
Special Collections Librarian / Curator of the Day Missions
Collection<br>
Yale Divinity School Library<br>
409 Prospect St. New Haven, CT 06511<br>
Phone 203 432-5289 Fax 203 432-3906<br>
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