ePADD 7.3 Now Available
The ePADD development team is excited to announce the release of ePADD 7.3!
This new release includes the following updates:
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An entirely new user interface for reviewing email attachments.
Blog topic: Open source
ArcLight presentations from Integrations with ArchivesSpace webinar series
Are you curious about ArcLight and how it can integrate with ArchivesSpace and other systems? Learn more from the video below! Mark Matienzo and Gregory Wiedeman (University at Albany) present on ArcLight and ArchivesSpace as part of the Integrations with ArchivesSpace webinar series on May 12, 2020. Mark's presentation provides background on ArcLight, its community-oriented development, its features, and the importance of integrations, and Greg's presentation focuses on how University at Albany integrated ArcLight with ArchivesSpace, Hyrax, and Quicksearch to build University at Albany's archives discovery system.
ePADD 1st Quarter Update
In January, the ePADD project team began work on the current phase of development to the software, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The focus for this first quarter of the year is on the redevelopment of the ePADD’s attachment review feature. Attachments are a rich source of information in an email collection, providing context to the archive owner’s work, communications, and relationships.
ANSI releases select standards for COVID-19 support (UPDATED)
Several librarians across the United States have been petitioning ISO and ANSI to release or open up access to several critical standards in the response efforts to the COVID-19 pandemic. ANSI has announced a portal that contains several of these important standards, including standards for the fabrication of ventilators and standards for incident management response, released to the public. At this time, 31 of these ISO standards have been released, and you can access them by visiting the following links.
Virtual R support this quarter
Below are some ways for you to stay connected and get help with R this quarter.
Virtual R Lab
Starting next week (April 8) the weekly R Lab will be online. This is a collaborative space to get started with R, to troubleshoot and connect.
Time: Wednesdays 2-4pm from April 8 to May 27
Location: Zoom link
ePADD 7.2 now available
The ePADD project team is excited to announce the release of ePADD version 7.2! This latest version of the software includes bug fixes that improve the performance of the indexing of email attachments in the Appraisal module.
Stanford University Libraries receives Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funding for ePADD phase three development
We are excited to announce that the ePADD project has been awarded a grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the planning and future development of the ePADD software!
ePADD is free and open-source computational analysis software developed by Stanford University Libraries Special Collections & University Archives and partners that facilitates screening, browsing, and access for historically and culturally significant email collections.
Stanford Libraries SERG/Carpentries Workshop Series
Stanford University is a member organization of The Carpentries, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching foundational skills for research computing skills. This partnership is managed by Dr. Amy Hodge of the Stanford University Libraries, and is open to the entire campus community. Over the past few quarters the Stanford University Libraries have offered the popular two-day Software Carpentry workshops as an open enrollment to anyone on campus. Other campus organizations have also run and will continue to run similar versions of these workshops.