Beta testing

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When?

• We formally began the beta testing phase of the ICA-AtoM project during the week of October 6, 2008.

• Please note that we released ICA-AtoM version 1.0.3 on October 9. Many of the institutions who are currently beta-testing are using that version. However, we have since released version 1.0.4 (on November 24) and some institutions are using that version - particularly the Canadian testers, because we added a Canadian Rules for Archival Description to that release. We will be migrating hosted sites to version 1.0.4 in the near future.

Participation Requirements

• The only requirement to participate in beta testing is to have one or more representatives from your institution enter some of your archival description data into ICA-AtoM and provide feedback to the ICA-AtoM development team on how to improve the software.

• You can determine for yourself how much time and how much data to contribute to this process.

• Please note that you can either have your institution host its own version of the software or we can host it on our server at no cost during the beta testing phase. **Note** If you host it on your own server, we do ask that you make the site publicly available, since we are hoping that beta testers will learn from each other's work.

Become a Beta Tester

If you are considering having your institution participate in ICA-AtoM beta testing please contact Evelyn McLellan, ICA-AtoM Community Manager, for more information.

Discussion List

Questions and comments about using ICA-AtoM should be posted to the ICA-AtoM discussion group so that other users can add their responses and suggestions and learn from each other during this process. **Important** note for non-English and multilingual beta-testers posted Monday October 20: please go to http://groups.google.ca/group/ica-atom-users/browse_thread/thread/500d173fa7659374

Participating Institutions

The following institutions have completed the beta-testing preparation as of February 6, 2009. Please note that URLs to their ICA-AtoM sites will be provided once testing has begun.

Institution	Beta Test Website	Type	Country	Languages	Institution Website
Archiefschool, Netherlands Institute for Archival Education and Research (Archiefschool, Nederlands Instituut voor Archiefonderwijs en -onderzoek)	www.ica-atom.org/archiefschool	Educational	Netherlands	Dutch	http://www.archiefschool.nl
Australian National University Archives/Noel Butlin Archives Centre	www.ica-atom.org/anu	University/National	Australia	English	http://www.archives.anu.edu.au/nbac/html/index.php
Bahia State Archives (Arquivo Público da Bahia)	www.ica-atom.org/bahia	State/provincial	Brazil	Portuguese	http://www.bahiacultural.com.br/Template.asp?nivel=00070003&identidade=33&id_equipamento=392
British Columbia Archival Union List (BCAUL)	www.ica-atom.org/bcaul	Union list	Canada	English	http://www.aabc.bc.ca
City of Vancouver Archives	www.ica-atom.org/vancouver	Municipal	Canada	English	http://city.vancouver.bc.ca/ctyclerk/archives/
HumanRightsArchives.org (ICA Task Force on Human Rights)	http://humanrightsarchives.org	Union list	International	English, Spanish	http://www.ica.org/
International Council on Archives Section on Archival Education and Training	www.ica-atom.org/sae	Educational	International	English	http://www.ica.org/
Memoria Abierta - Acción Coordinada de Organizaciones de Derechos Humanos	www.ica-atom.org/memoria_abierta	Educational, cultural, research	Argentina	Spanish	http://www.observatoriomercosur.org.uy/libro/memoria_abierta_23.php
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery	www.ica-atom.org/belkin	Cultural, university	Canada	English	http://www.belkin.ubc.ca/
National Archives of Iran	http://217.218.78.251:8080/icaatom-ir	National	Iran	Farsi	http://www.nlai.ir/Default.aspx?tabid=471
National Archives of Iceland (Þjóðskjalasafn Íslands)	www.ica-atom.org/skjalasafn	National	Iceland	Icelandic	http://www.archives.is/
The National Archives of Scotland	www.ica-atom.org/nas	National	Scotland	English	http://www.nas.gov.uk/
National General Archive-México (Archivo General de la Nación-México)	TBA	National	Mexico	Spanish	http://www.agn.gob.mx/
National Overseas Archives (Archives nationales d'outre-mer (ANOM))	ww.ica-atom.org/anom	National	France	French	http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/
Oswalso Cruz Foundation (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz)	http://arquivos-coc.homolog.bireme.org/web/	Research	Brazil	Portuguese	http://www.fiocruz.br/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?tpl=home
Prime Minister’s Office Archives (Archivio della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri)	www.ica-atom.org/archpcm	Government	Italy	Italian	http://www.governo.it/
Queen's University Archives	http://your.archives.queensu.ca:8080/ica-atom	University	Canada	English	http://archives.queensu.ca/index.html
Reference and Information Center of Arts, Entertainment and Brazilian Culture (CRIAR - Centro de Referência e Informação em Artes, Entretenimento e Cultura Brasileira)	TBA	Union list	Brazil	Portuguese	None available
Regional Archives of Maribor (Pokrajinski arhiv Maribor)	www.ica-atom.org/mar	Provincial	Slovenia	Slovenian	http://www.pokarh-mb.si/
Rui Barbosa´s House Foundation (Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa)	TBA	Research, cultural	Brazil	Portuguese	http://www.casaruibarbosa.gov.br/
Ministry of Education (وزارة التربية والتعليم)	www.ica-atom.org/moe	Educational	United Arab Emirates	Arabic, English	http://www.uaeinteract.com/education/
Simon Fraser University Archives	TBA	University	Canada	English	http://www.sfu.ca/archives/
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)	www.ica-atom.org/unesco	International	France	English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian.	http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=29008&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
University Archives, Vienna University of Technology (Universitätsarchiv der Technischen Universität Wien)	www.ica-atom.org/tuwa	University	Austria	German	http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/wiss-archive/daten/archiv21.html
University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology	www.ica-atom.org/moa	University, cultural	Canada	English	http://www.moa.ubc.ca/
University of Victoria Archives (as part of bcaul project)	www.ica-atom.org/bcaul	Union List	Canada	English	http://library.uvic.ca/site/archives/default.html
World Bank Group Archives	www.ica-atom.org/wbga	International	USA	English	http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/EXTARCHIVES/0,,pagePK:38167~theSitePK:29506,00.html