Move tracking tools

[Megan McShea]

Can anyone recommend a container tracking tool they've liked using in a collection move? I'm contemplating creating something myself, but I would love to find something ready-made and suitable for archives.

It would be extra nice to hear if you've exported data out of it and into a fresh set of ArchivesSpace locations.

Thank you,

Megan McShea

Lead Archivist, Afro Charities

[Michael Andrec]

Very convenient timing for me. I am currently prepping for a collection move myself, so I'd also be curious to hear what folks have to say.

As far as the prep work goes, I wrote a little Flask app that can take a URL related to a location, show all containers that are assigned to that location in ASpace (across all repositories), and optionally reassign a selected container to a different location: https://github.com/Ukrainian-History/ASpaceLocs. The idea is that each real-world location can have a QR code attached to it containing a Flask endpoint URL that can be scanned with a smartphone and that will then bring up the app. It has no documentation at the moment, but if there is interest, I can see if I can make it more useful for folks. Maybe I'll foist the documentation writing onto a bot...

Best,

Mike