[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Lingo Cheat Sheet?

[Christie Peterson]

Hi Olivia,

As we've brought staff on board with ASpace over the past eight months or
so, I've found that the biggest barrier hasn't been the lingo, per se, but
the underlying data model. I don't have any materials on hand to share, but
I've drawn out basic entity-relationship models for Resources, Accessions,
Archival Objects, Instances, and Agents on white boards more times than I
could count. Once people understand how these different record types work
together, the names seem to be less of an issue.

Best wishes,

Christie

On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Olivia S Solis <livsolis at utexas.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I always seem to post on Friday afternoons.
>
> Throwing this out to the group because training is of immediate and scary
> concern. One of the things that I am acutely aware of is that our staff is
> going to have to get used to new terminology and fast to be able to use
> ASpace. Lingo is going to be a big barrier to access.
>
> What have been some of your conceptual/terminology roadblocks in terms of
> staff training?
>
> Things I know I will have to explain as new terminology/conceptual
> reframing are included as headers below. I'm laying my work bare here, but
> I'm thinking that the crowdsourcing could be useful here. We've got people
> at varied levels of technical proficiency. I was thinking of an informal
> cheat sheet.
>
> Did you make a cheat sheet for ASpace lingo for staff training? Am I not
> including some conceptual leaps here? Did you have ASpace terminology you
> had to explain in multiple ways?
>
> Thanks,
> Olivia
>
>
>
> *Agent RecordA record type for a person, family, corporation, or software.
> A major record type in ASpace that can link to Accession Records, Resource
> Records, Archival Object Records, and Event Records in various roles, most
> often as subjects and creators. Every distinct agent has one and only one
> record.Archival Object Record[NOTE we're not using ASpace for digital
> objects]A record type for an item in an inventory. If are familiar with
> EAD, this corresponds to a <c##> level. If not, think of this as a tabbed
> level of an inventory. ChildArchivesSpace thinks of hierarchical
> relationships as "parent"/"child". A parent could be the <c01> to a child
> <c02>, though ASpace would never frame it in terms of specific numbered
> component levels. A parent could also be the box that a child
> reel/folder/box within the parent boxClassificationsContainer
> ProfileBasically, the type and dimensions of a container. Container
> profiles are consecutively numbered by type. For a description of container
> types see [this link]. For specs/pictures of different container types, see
> [this link].Event RecordIn DBCAH's implementation, Event Records document
> specific steps taken in archival processing, most comprehensively in
> Accession Records (e.g. Deeds of Gift sent or received). Event Records are
> bound to specific dates.InstanceIndicatorLocation ProfileNote
> (resources)ParentResource RecordEssentially a finding aid plus some
> additional collection management information.Space Calculator*
>
> --
> Olivia Solis, MSIS
> Metadata Coordinator
> Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
> The University of Texas at Austin
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> Austin TX, 78712-1426
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Christie S. Peterson
Manager of Technical Services for Special Collections
Smith College

cpeterson at smith.edu
413-585-2074

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