[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Sandbox Off line - 502 error/ArchivesSpace Educational Program membership

[Arnold, Hillel]

I had an archival description class do exactly that – install on their laptops – this semester. It worked pretty well, and there are a couple of important lessons for archivists (readme  conventions, command line basics, how web apps work) that fit in with this approach.

Hillel

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Hillel Arnold
Lead Digital Archivist
Rockefeller Archive Center
914.366.6382

From: Chris Fitzpatrick <Chris.Fitzpatrick at lyrasis.org<mailto:Chris.Fitzpatrick at lyrasis.org>>
Reply-To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>>
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 9:37 AM
To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>>
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Sandbox Off line - 502 error/ArchivesSpace Educational Program membership




Yes, and this has come up a few times now...


To keep costs down, we run the sandbox on the smallest possible server we can on AWS and simply flush it and rebuild from time to time.

It's not a good platform to run classes on.


Maybe a good idea would be to have the students download Aspace and run it on their laptops. It's pretty easy to do ( if they have java ) and there's the google list they can send emails to if they run into problems...


b,chris.


Chris Fitzpatrick | Developer, ArchivesSpace
Skype: chrisfitzpat  | Phone: 918.236.6048
http://archivesspace.org/


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Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Sandbox Off line - 502 error/ArchivesSpace Educational Program membership


Hi Kari,


"It seems from the description that the ArchivesSpace instance is hosted by LYRASIS which is in general the challenge of having the program for a class."


I just want to clarify that this is not the case. The archivesspace.org servers, including the sandbox, are hosted by the program team, not LYRASIS.


Regards,

Mark


Mark Cooper
Technical Lead, Hosting and Support
LYRASIS
email: mark.cooper at lyrasis.org<mailto:mark.cooper at lyrasis.org>
skype: mark_c_cooper


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Hi Christine,

Thanks for your note.  I didn’t know about the Educational Program Membership – and that sounds great! It seems from the description that the ArchivesSpace instance is hosted by LYRASIS which is in general the challenge of having the program for a class.

This is definitely something I’ll see about joining for class next semester I teach.  Thank you for sharing that information.



Kari Smith



From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Christine Di Bella
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 10:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Sandbox Off line - 502 error/ArchivesSpace Educational Program membership



Dear Kari (and others who may be interested in using ArchivesSpace in courses),



We were alerted to this outage this morning and rebuilt the sandbox a short time ago. It is back up now.



The sandbox is intended to be a place where people who don’t want to download and install anything to try out various aspects of ArchivesSpace. It’s cleared out and rebuilt frequently as we make updates to the application, so it’s not a great place to work on class assignments or anything that is either time-sensitive or needs to be kept. In a case like this one, we would suggest either doing a local installation of ArchivesSpace, or, for assignments that are part of work in a graduate program in archives/information science/public history, etc., faculty or administrators consider a free Educational Program Membership (see http://archivesspace.org/educationalmembership). The latter provides students with access to the ArchivesSpace user manual, and the program with some other benefits of ArchivesSpace membership.



We currently have 8 Educational Program Members (see the bottom of our members page – http://archivesspace.org/members - for a listing), and we’d love to have other schools join them.



Best,

Christine



Christine Di Bella

Community Outreach and Support Manager

christine.dibella at lyrasis.org<mailto:christine.dibella at lyrasis.org>

800.999.8558 x2905

678-235-2905

cdibella13 (Skype)

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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Sandbox Off line - 502 error



Hello,

I’ve had reports and checked myself just now that the Sandbox has been down since Saturday or Sunday.  The error is 502 Bad Gateway – Ngnix 1.6.2.



Thank you for looking into getting it back up.  I’ve asked students in my course who are using ArchivesSpace to learn about archival management systems to create resource records and so are interested in having the Sandbox back up.



Thank you,

Kari



Kari R. Smith, Digital Archivist

MIT Libraries, Institute Archives and Special Collections

617-258-5568  |   smithkr (at) mit.edu

http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/


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