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Introduction to ICA-AtoM 1.1
ICA-AtoM, which stands for International Council on Archives - Access to Memory, is a web-based, free software application for standards-based archival description in a multi-lingual, multi-repository environment. It is designed to support ICA standards such as General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD[G]), International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families (ISAAR[CPF]), International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings (ISDIAH), and International Standard for Describing Functions (ISDF). ICA-AtoM allows you to describe your archival holdings in context. You will not create an archival description in isolation: you will link it to a description of a creator and a description of an archival institution, resulting in a complete account of what the records are, who created them and what archives they belong to.
See http://ica-atom.org for more information about the application.
How these Tutorials Work
This series consists of ten tutorials which are to be completed in the order listed:
1. Log in
2. Browse and Search
2.1 Archival Records
2.2 Authority Records
2.3 Archival Institutions
2.4 Functions
2.5 Subjects
2.6 Places
2.7 Digital Objects
3. Edit /Add Archival Institution
4. Edit /Add / Import Authority Record
5. Edit / Add/ Import Archival Description
6. Attach Digital Objects
7 Add/ Import Subject Terms
8. Physical Storage
9. Add Functions
10. Administer ICA-AtoM
For More Information and to provide Feedback:
If you would like more detailed instructions on using ICA-AtoM in general, you can consult the on-line user manual at http://www.ica-atom.org/docs/index.php?title=User_manual. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions about the tutorials, the user manual or the software itself, please go to the ICA-AtoM discussion list at http://googlegroups.com/group/ica-atom-users.