DigitalKoans

The project team from the Five Colleges, Inc., New York University Libraries, and the UCSD Libraries have released Version 1.1 of the Archivists' Toolkit.

Here's an excerpt from the project's home page that describes the new features of the release:

• Batch import of EAD files: target a directory containing the EAD files to be imported and import all EAD files 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 as either EAD files or MARCXML records
• Import of XML encoded accession data: Import of multiple names using the XML import method.  Use the accessionsImport.xsd file to map your accession data and to create an accessions import file
• EAD schema: replaces the EAD DTD for importing / exporting EAD files
• Extended accession record: includes new fields, including many user definable
• Extended repository record: includes new fields for recording repository statistics, per recommendations of Archival Metrics Project
• Support for other database backends. In addition to the open source database backend MySQL, the application can be run using either Oracle or MS SQL server as a backend
• Updated documentation. User manual and additional documentation have been updated to reflect new features

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