{"id":541,"date":"2017-05-12T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/?p=541"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:08:33","slug":"atom-camp-take-aways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/2017\/05\/12\/atom-camp-take-aways\/","title":{"rendered":"AtoM Camp take aways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by Jenny Mitcham, Digital Archivist
Originally posted to “Digital Archiving at the University of York” <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve spent the last three days in Cambridge at AtoM Camp. This was the second ever AtoM Camp, and the first in Europe. A big thanks to St John\u2019s College for hosting it and to Artefactual Systems for putting it on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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The view from the window at AtoM Camp …not that there was
any time to gaze out of the window of course…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It really has been an interesting few days, with a packed programme and an engaged group of attendees from across Europe and beyond bringing different levels of experience with AtoM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a \u2018camp counsellor\u2019 I was able to take to the floor at regular intervals to share some of our experiences of implementing AtoM at the Borthwick, covering topics such as system selection, querying the MySQL database, building the community and overcoming implementation challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I was also there to learn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some bits and pieces that I\u2019ve taken away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first real take away is that I now have a working copy of the soon to be released AtoM 2.4 on my Macbook – this is really quite cool. I’ll never again be bored on a train – I can just fire up Ubuntu and have a play!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Walk to Camp takes you over Cambridge’s Bridge of Sighs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

During the camp it was great to be able to hear about some of the new features that will be available in this latest release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Borthwick Institute our catalogue<\/a> is still running on AtoM 2.2 so we are pretty excited about moving to 2.4 and being able to take advantage of all of this new functionality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just some of the new features I learnt about that I can see an immediate use case are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n