Managing digital archival collections by integrating Archivematica, AtoM and VuFind software: the University of Thessaly Historical Archive case
Authors: Clapsopoulos, Ioannis 
Stoyannidis, Yannis 
Laliotou, Ioanna 
Fanakis, Apostolos 
Bourdakis, Vassilis 
Pentazou, Ioulia 
Kalaouzis, George 
Selitsaniotis, Theodore 
Issue Date: 30-May-2022
Journal: Journal of Integrated Information Management 
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Keywords: Archives, Open-Source Systems, Digital Preservation, Documentation, Text and Data Mining, Thessaly
Abstract: 
Purpose-The great number of documents and records produced by universities leads to large archival collections within these Institutions. As a result, libraries and archival units apply new and innovative information systems to manage and exploit their archival collections for education and research purposes. Design/methodology/approach-The current research took place under the THE.ME.DO.COM EPAnEK (2014-2020) project, which mainly aimed to develop two web platforms for the preservation, documentation, management, and dissemination of the University of Thessaly archival collections, which constituted its Historical Archive. For this purpose, the Archivematica, AtoM and VuFind open-source information systems were configured and integrated, while innovative metadata creation coding was created for the project. Findings-Digital archival items were preserved and enriched with high-quality metadata in Archivematica, uploaded and described according to international standards in AtoM and distributed with smart search routines with VuFind. The integrated platform implementation resulted in an efficient automated approach to managing the University of Thessaly archives and archival collections, which comprised different digital object formats and included a high volume of digital items, making THE.ME.DO.COM a very successful project example. Originality/value-The University of Thessaly Historical Archive was used as a paradigm for implementing a new way to deal with complex archival collections. Other University Libraries or Archival Services could efficiently utilise the project results.
DOI: 10.26265/jiim.v7i1.4506
URI: https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/378
Type: Article
Department: Department of Archival, Library and Information Studies 
School: School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences 
Affiliation: University of West Attica (UNIWA) 
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