User manual¶
Below you’ll find an outline of the chapters in the user manual, and a set of links to each chapter’s main sections.
- What is AtoM?
 - Technical Requirements
 - Entity types
 - Descriptive standards
 - Getting Started
 - Accessions
 - Archival Descriptions
- Add a new archival description
 - Edit an existing archival description
 - Duplicate an existing archival description
 - Link related archival descriptions in AtoM to each other
 - Change the display standard
 - Add alternative identifiers to an archival description
 - Rename the title or slug of an archival description
 - View the modification history of an archival description
 - Move an archival description
 - Delete an archival description
 
 - Authority records
- AtoM, Authority records, Biographical histories, and Access points
 - Create a new authority record
 - Edit an existing authority record
 - Add access points to your authority record
 - Link an existing authority record to an archival description
 - Link an authority record to a repository as its maintainer
 - Create a relationship between two authority records
 - Create a relationship between an authority record and a function
 - Delete an authority record
 
 - Archival Institutions
- Add a new archival institution
 - Edit an existing archival institution
 - Add access points to your archival institution
 - Link an archival description to an archival institution
 - Edit the theme for an existing archival institution
 - Set digital object upload limit for an archival institution
 - Delete an archival institution
 
 - Deaccession records
 - Donor records
 - Functions
 - Rights
- Add a new rights record
 - Manage rights inheritance
 - Make rights actionable on digital objects
 - Configure Disallowed and Conditional access statements
 - Configure a preservation system access statement
 - Add a Copyright statement before allowing access to a master digital object
 - Manage Rights holders records
 
 - Control area
 - Terms
 - Physical storage
 - Formatting
 - Exit edit mode
 - Search
 - Advanced search
 - Browse
- Browsing for all users
 - Browsing for authenticated users
 
 - Navigation in AtoM
 - Context menu
 - Clipboard
 - Multilingual design principles
 - Translate Content
 - Translate Interface
 - Translate static pages
 - File and item list reports and printing
 - Create physical storage location and Box label reports
 - Generate, upload, download, and print finding aids
- Finding aid settings
 - Generate or upload a finding aid
 - Delete an existing finding aid
 - Finding aid layout
 - Troubleshooting finding aid issues
- Physical storage information is not included in my finding aid
 - I don’t want to display physical storage information in my finding aid
 - Draft descriptions are being shown in my finding aid
 - There’s no option in the context menu to generate a finding aid
 - My scope and content is not included for file and item level descriptions
 - Finding aid generation error; the jobs page says that “Exporting EAD has failed”
 
 
 - Upload and manage digital objects
- Link a single digital object to an archival description
 - Digital object metadata
 - Digital object metadata for preservation files
 - Link a single digital object to an authority record
 - Upload multiple digital objects to archival descriptions
 - Upload PDF
 - Edit digital objects
 - Add dynamic maps to your digital object metadata
 - Edit the filename of a digital object linked to an archival description
 - Delete digital objects
 - Adding a watermark to reference images
 - Digital object storage
 - Files formats
 
 - Import XML
 - Export XML
 - CSV import
- Before you import
 - Legacy ID mapping: dealing with hierarchical data in a CSV
 - Prepare archival descriptions for CSV import
 - Import new archival descriptions via CSV
 - Update existing descriptions via CSV import
 - Prepare events for CSV import
 - Import events via CSV
 - Prepare archival institution records for CSV import
 - Import new archival institutions via CSV
 - Update archival institutions via CSV import
 - Prepare authority records for CSV import
 - Import new authority records via CSV
 - Update authority records via CSV import
 - Prepare authority record relationships for CSV import
 - Import new authority record relationships via CSV
 - Prepare accession records for CSV import
 - Create new accession records via CSV import
 - Update existing accessions via CSV import
 
 - CSV export
 - CSV Validation
- CSV validator import settings
 - Validate a CSV via the user interface
 - CSV validation report structure
 - CSV validation test classes
 - CSV validation tests - all entities
 - CSV validation tests - descriptions
 - CSV validation tests - archival institutions
 
 - Import and export terms with SKOS
 - OAI Repository
 - Manage user accounts and user groups
 - Manage digital object storage
 - Edit permissions
 - Manage jobs
 - Manage static pages
 - Manage Menus
 - Manage plugins
 - Settings
- Global settings
- Application version
 - Check for updates
 - Results per page
 - Escape special characters from searches
 - Sort browser (users)
 - Sort browser (anonymous)
 - Default repository browse view
 - Default archival description browse view
 - Multiple repositories
 - Enable institutional scoping
 - Enable description change logging
 - Show tooltips
 - Generate description permalinks from
 - Use any valid URI path segment and uppercase character in slugs
 - Default publication status
 - Show available drafts notification upon user login
 - SWORD deposit directory
 - Google Maps Javascript API key setting
 - Generate archival description reports as public user
 - Cache description XML exports upon creation/modification
 
 - CSV Validator settings
 - Clipboard settings
 - DIP upload
 - Default page elements
 - Default templates
 - Digital object derivatives
 - Finding aid
 - Add/Remove languages
 - Identifier settings
 - Inventory
 - Markdown settings
 - OAI repository
 - Permissions
 - Privacy notification
 - Security panel
 - Site information
 - Storage Service
 - Treeview settings
 - Uploads
 - User interface labels
 
 - Global settings
 - Themes and theming
 - Default language
 - Site logo
 - Description Updates
 - Visible elements
 - General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G)) data entry and CSV template
 - Rules for Archival Description (RAD) data entry and CSV template
- RAD CSV template
 - Field descriptions
- Title and statement of responsibility area
- Title proper
 - General material designation
 - Parallel title
 - Other title information
 - Title statement of responsibility
 - Title notes - Statements of responsibility
 - Title notes - Attributions and conjectures
 - Title notes - Continuation of title
 - Title notes - Source of title proper
 - Title notes - Variations in title
 - Title notes - Parallel titles and other title information
 - Level of description
 - Add new child levels
 - Repository
 - Reference code
 - Alternative identifier
 
 - Edition area
 - Class of materials specific details area
 - Authority record fields
 - Dates of creation area
 - Physical description area
 - Publisher’s series area
 - Archival description area
 - Notes area
- Physical condition
 - Immediate source of acquisition
 - Arrangement
 - Language of material
 - Script of material
 - Language and script note
 - Location of originals
 - Availability of other formats
 - Restrictions on access
 - Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
 - Finding aids
 - Associated materials
 - Accruals
 - Other notes - Accompanying material
 - Other notes - Alpha-numeric designations
 - Other notes - Cast note
 - Other notes - Conservation
 - Other notes - Credits note
 - Other notes - Edition
 - Other notes - Physical description
 - Other notes - Publisher’s series
 - Other notes- Rights
 - Other notes- Signatures note
 - Other notes - General note
 
 - Standard number area
 - Access points
 - Control area
 - Rights area
 - Administration area
 
 - Title and statement of responsibility area
 
 - Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS 2013) data entry and CSV template
 - Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1 (DC)
 - Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
 - International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families
 - International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings
 - International Standard for Describing Functions (ISDF)
 - Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies v2.2 (PREMIS)
 - Glossary
 

