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Archon Facilitating Access to Special
Collections
Prepared for PACSCL Conference Something New for
Something Old Innovative Approaches to Managing
Archives and Special Collections Chris
Prom Assistant University Archivist University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign prom_at_illinois.edu
www.archon.org
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Release History and Readings

• Version 1.0 Fall 2006
• Version 1.1 Spring 2007
• adds digital library and integrated help system
• Version 2.0 Winter 2008
• major rewrite, security improvements, added
  multilingual support for staff interface
• Version 2.1 April 2008
• added accession manager, improved usability
  (finding aid search), implemented data handling
  efficiencies
• Version 2.2 August 2008
• added digital library improvements (thumbnails),
  made interface XHTML and web accessibility
  compliant
• 2003 Workflow analysis http//www.library.uiuc.ed
  u/archives/workpap/workflow.pdf
• 2004 Internal Research Proposal
  http//www.archon.org/ICRGrant2004.pdf
• 2007 http//www.library.uiuc.edu/archives/workpap
  /FP090--prom.pdf
• 2008 http//www.archon.org/ArchonUpdateApril2008.
  pdf

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Future Plans

• Version 3.0 Alpha in January or February 2009
  with revised user interface
• Annotation features
• Preservation assessment module
• Enhanced names/creator/functions linking and
  browsing.
• Add OAI data provider and bulk import/export
• Connections to repository software (SWORD)?
• Hosted web services.
• Long term enhance digital library to support
  complex objects and electronic records

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Archon Facilitating Access to Special
Collections
Prepared for PACSCL Conference Something New for
Something Old Innovative Approaches to Managing
Archives and Special Collections Chris
Prom Assistant University Archivist University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign prom_at_illinois.edu
www.archon.org