Colleagues,

The Access to Memory (AtoM) Foundation is pleased to launch a community survey about the design and development of AtoM 3, a successor version to the AtoM 2 software currently used by archival institutions all over the world. Please complete the survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/atom3survey.

The survey will also allow the Foundation to gather feedback on an AtoM 3 proof of concept proposal submitted to the Foundation by an international group of organizations dedicated to developing and supporting open-source software: AIM 25 (UK), Artefactual Systems (Canada), Docuteam (Switzerland), Imagiz (UK), Nothing Interactive (Switzerland), and Zazuko (Switzerland). The AtoM Foundation invites survey participants to review the proposal on the Foundation’s website at [link]. Participants are not required to review the proposal before completing the survey.

The survey is open until May 31, 2019. For more information, visit the AtoM Foundation website: https://accesstomemoryfoundation.org/development/.

Thank you for helping to inform the design and development of AtoM 3.

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Chers collègues,

La Fondation Access to Memory (AtoM) est heureuse de lancer un sondage auprès de la communauté sur la planification et le développement d’AtoM 3, une version qui succèdera au logiciel AtoM 2, lequel est présentement utilisé par des institutions d’archives partout dans le monde. Veuillez remplir le questionnaire à l’adresse suivante: https://fr.surveymonkey.com/r/sondageatom3.

Ce sondage permettra également à la Fondation de recueillir des commentaires au sujet d’une proposition pour l’établissement d’une étude de faisabilité pour AtoM 3. Cette dernière a été soumise à la Fondation par un groupe international d’organisations vouées au développement et au support de logiciels libres, soit : AIM 25 (Royaume-Uni), Artefactual Systems (Canada), Docuteam (Suisse), Imagiz (Royaume-Uni), Nothing Interactive (Suisse) et Zazuko (Suisse). La Fondation AtoM invite les participants au sondage à examiner la proposition sur son site Web <="" p="">. Les participants ne sont pas obligés d'examiner le proposition avant de répondre au sondage. 

Le sondage sera disponible jusqu’au 31 mai 2019. Pour plus d’informations, visitez le site Web de la Fondation AtoM : https://accesstomemoryfoundation.org/development/#fr.

Merci de votre contribution à la planification et au développement d’AtoM 3.

Cordialement,

Creighton Barrett
Chair, Board of Directors / Président du conseil d’administration
Access to Memory Foundation / Fondation Access to Memory

Colleagues,

The inaugural Board of Directors of the Access to Memory (AtoM) Foundation is pleased to share some news about the Foundation’s efforts to guide the development of AtoM 3, a successor version of the current AtoM software.

Since we announced the incorporation of the Foundation, we have been working to establish a framework to guide the development of AtoM 3. We are developing a preliminary survey that will help gather information about current usage of AtoM 2 and the community’s functional and design requirements of AtoM 3. The survey will be released in English and French later this fall and will be open to all members of the archival community. The inaugural BoD encourages responses from Canadian and international communities.

We are beginning to organize the first Annual General Meeting in Fall 2019. The AGM will be open to all Institutional Members and non-voting Individual Members. More information about the first AGM will be shared in the coming months.

The AtoM Foundation will oversee and support the development, sustainability and adoption of Access to Memory (AtoM) as a multilingual, multi-repository open source application for standards-based archival description and access. The Foundation’s primary focus is leading the planning and development of AtoM 3. The planning and development work will be consultative, transparent, and member-driven.

New information about the AtoM Foundation is available on our website: https://accesstomemoryfoundation.org/

• The membership page now includes a current list of Founding Institutional Members and Institutional Members: https://accesstomemoryfoundation.org/membership-2/
• The governance page includes copies of the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws: https://accesstomemoryfoundation.org/governance/
• And we have a new page with answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs): https://accesstomemoryfoundation.org/faqs/

We are now accepting institutional and individual memberships. For more information about joining the AtoM Foundation, please visit our membership page: https://accesstomemoryfoundation.org/membership-2/

In closing, the Board of Directors would like to acknowledge the Founding Institutional Members, Institutional Members, and Individual Members that have already joined the Foundation.

Sincerely,

Inaugural Board of Directors,
Access to Memory (AtoM) Foundation

Creighton Barrett, Dalhousie University (Chair)
Heather Gordon, City of Vancouver Archives
Paul Hebbard, Simon Fraser University (Secretary)
Jeremy Heil, Queen’s University
Tim Hutchinson, University of Saskatchewan (Treasurer)
Lara Wilson, University of Victoria (Vice-Chair)

We are pleased to announce the establishment of the Access to Memory (AtoM) Foundation, a federally incorporated, community-driven, soliciting non-profit body. The Foundation was established to oversee and support the development, sustainability and adoption of Access to Memory (AtoM) as a multilingual, multi-repository open source application for standards-based archival description and access. The Foundation’s primary focus will be on leading the planning and development of AtoM 3, a successor version of the current software.

We believe a non-profit foundation is the best way to provide governance and promote community involvement in the development and maintenance of AtoM 3. AtoM is not just a software tool, it is an open-source project. Being open-source has profound implications for how software is developed, released, documented and made available to communities of users around the world. The Foundation wants to give organizations that use AtoM, or who are considering using AtoM, a stake in how the software evolves.

The Foundation will lead the development of AtoM 3 by soliciting funds from members and others to rewrite the software so that its sustainability is assured and its overall functionality enhanced while reflecting the descriptive needs of the archival community.

The Foundation also wants to support future migration from AtoM 2 to AtoM 3 to ensure users of the software can continue to rely on their current instances of AtoM while feeling confident that the development of a new version does not mean they will be left behind.

We are now accepting institutional and individual memberships. For more information about the Foundation, please visit our website.
https://accesstomemoryfoundation.org/

Inaugural Board of Directors,
Access to Memory (AtoM) Foundation

Creighton Barrett, Dalhousie University
Heather Gordon, City of Vancouver Archives
Paul Hebbard, Simon Fraser University
Jeremy Heil, Queen’s University
Tim Hutchinson, University of Saskatchewan
Lara Wilson, University of Victoria