Archivists' Toolkit 1.1

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The Archivists’ Toolkit team is pleased to announce the availability
of the beta version 1.1 of the Archivists’ Toolkit application.

The AT 1.1 beta is being made available for testing by members of the
Archivists’ Toolkit User Group and any other interested persons. The
1.1 beta will be available for testing until at least Monday, June 18.

New Features

Batch import of EADs: target a directory containing the EADs to be
imported and import all EADs in the directory.

Batch export of EAD and MARCXML records: from the resource browse
screen select two or more resources that you want to export either
EADs or MARCXML records for.

Import of XML encoded accession data: Import of multiple names using
the XML import method. Use the accessionImport.xsd file to map your
accession data and to create an accessions import file.

EAD schema: replaces the EAD DTD for importing / exporting EADs.

Extended accession record: includes new fields, many user definable.

Extended repository record: includes new fields for recording
repository statistics, per recommendations of the Archival Metrics Project

And more…..

Details for acquiring and testing the Archivists’ Toolkit 1.1 beta
are available at http://www.archiviststoolkit.org/publicBeta

We look forward to hearing your comments.

Brad Westbrook
Lee Mandell
Jason Varghese
Arwen Hutt
Annie Ross

AT Project Team Members

Bradley D. Westbrook
Metadata Librarian and Digital Archivist
UCSD Libraries 0175-K
UC, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0175

Phone: 858-822-0612
FAX: 858-822-0349
Email: bdwestbrook@ucsd.edu

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