Overview

ArchivesSpace is described as follows.

https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace

Built for archives by archivists, ArchivesSpace is the open source archives information management application for managing and providing web access to archives, manuscripts and digital objects.

This article tries the OAI Repository feature provided by ArchivesSpace.

https://archivesspace.github.io/tech-docs/architecture/oai-pmh/

Configuration

This time, we use the ArchivesSpace demo site.

Access the following and configure the necessary settings.

https://sandbox.archivesspace.org/staff/oai_config/edit

Retrieving the List of Metadata Formats

The list of metadata formats was retrieved using the following.

https://sandbox.archivesspace.org/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats

The results are shown below. We can confirm that oai_dc, oai_ead, oai_dcterms, oai_marc, and oai_mods are available.

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Retrieving the List of Sets

The list of sets was retrieved using the following.

https://sandbox.archivesspace.org/oai?verb=ListSets

The results are shown below. We can confirm that sets are configured for each fonds and series.

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Retrieving a List of Records

The list of records for collection is retrieved using the following.

The following is for the oai_ead metadata format.

https://sandbox.archivesspace.org/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_ead&set=collection

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It matched the following collection.

https://sandbox.archivesspace.org/staff/resources/2#tree::resource_2

Summary

I tried the OAI Repository feature of ArchivesSpace. As a method for programmatically retrieving information published in ArchivesSpace, it seemed to have various potential applications.

I hope this serves as a useful reference when considering the adoption of ArchivesSpace.