staticAid

A static site generator for archival description

Hillel Arnold / @helrond

Head of Digital Programs, Rockefeller Archive Center

http://hillelarnold.com/staticAid/

https://github.com/helrond/staticAid

http://bit.ly/staticaid

Thanks!

@edUIConf

@HenrikJoreteg

@code4lib 2016 organizers

@trevorthornton

ArchivesSpace REST API

JSON

Jekyll templates

HTML

GET resources/

GET resources/trees/

GET archival_objects/

GET agents/

GET subjects/

makePages.py

jekyll serve

HTML pages

Collections

Archival objects

Subjects

Agents (people, family, corporate bodies)

responsive!

schema.org!

fast!

THIS IS NOT PERFECT

No search

Not fancy

Who cares?

Speed matters

Maintainability matters

ArchivesSpace instance

Python

Github repository/Github pages

</xml>

Version control for content

The right tool for the job

Thanks!