Updating AtoM

[ElsaZakhia]

Hello,

I recently took charge of the archives, mainly the photo library, of the Oriental Library (Bibliothèque Orientale-USJ), which is managed by Saint Joseph University (Beirut, Lebanon).

A few years ago, the photo library was on AtoM (version 2.4.0-156), and the data was imported from CSV files. Then, for some vague reason, the imports were stopped, especially since a report dating from 2002 (https://distam.hypotheses.org/4941) and French partners considered that AtoM was at the end of its life, given the obsolescence of some of the technologies used.

I wanted to know if the situation had changed since 2022 (could AtoM move to newer technologies) and how the update from our current version to version 20.10.1 would work (I saw that the updates were quite complex)?

Thank you for your answers,

Elsa Zakhia

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[Johan Pieterse]

Hi Elza

AtoM in my mind is far from end of life.

The issue is Symfony 1.4 that is not supported anymore and a much later version is available, but Artefactual managed to keep the framework alive and up to date.

The PHP is at 8.3 (8.4 and 8.5 latest and is not behind in upgrades)

The MySQL database is at 8 and 8.4 latest. You can use it.

ElasticSearch is a bit of a older release but Artefactual is busy working on upgrading to it. 7.x (they use ES 7.10 in development). ES 7.11 - 8.15 is not supported by AtoM as it uses Server Side Public License (SSPL)

As for the rest they are building/extending it. 

We as a company made substantial investments and code devlopment to make it future proof.

Johan

The Archive and Heritage Group