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Same software, different design: Opportunities, challenges and mythsKari James, Executive Officer, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Adelaide, 23 October 2019
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What is the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau?
• Established at ANU in 1968 to improve access to primary documentation about the Pacific Islands
• Make preservation copies of archives, manuscripts and rare printed materials about the Pacific Islands
• Access to these materials through our member libraries
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PMB MS 144 London Missionary Society Correspondence with New Zealand Administration
PMB MS 59 Dictionaries
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Microfilming in the Islands
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Essential requirements• Metadata visible to everyone YES
• Deliver digital objects YES
• Ability to partition access to digital objects so they can only be opened in subscribing libraries. We are entirely funded by subscription fees, so this was essential YES – using IP authentication, member management plugin
• Interoperable with the various library systems of subscribing libraries – MARC collaboration with NLA, MARC and HTML export plugins
• Easily migrate from existing database YES
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PAMBU catalogue todayhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/
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AtoM in 2019 – Users/ResearchersFeedback:
• Search and Browse not intuitive for many users
• Difficulty interpreting search results: lack of visual distinction between levels of description/hierarchy
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Workshop at
USP, Suva.
Photo credit
Jamie Bloss
• Bugs such as blank ‘Untitled’ records • Assistance to researchers
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AtoM in 2019 –Archivists/ Administrators
• Manual uploads of digital objects causing bottlenecks
• Faulty ‘update descendants’ function
• System outage
• Over reliance on goodwill
• Online community/support highly technical
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Pacific use?
• Do you have technical support in your organisation? In country?
• After installation, will you have funding for ongoing support?
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AtoM wish list
For researchers:
• ‘Browse by media type’ button - photos
• Better visual distinction between levels in the
hierarchy.
For me, I’d like
• Far less manual processing.
• A more active ‘real world’ user community
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Thank you!
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