[Archon-L] training required for Archon

[Kyle Fox]

As a small correction to this last post, all versions of Archon
require PHP 5. None of the pages will load correctly if Archon is
being run on PHP 4 or newer.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Scott Schwartz <schwrtzs at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Jacqui,
>  Thanks for your note.  You do not need special IT training to install
>  and use Archon.  You should be able to easily install Archon with some
>  very simple guidance from your IT people regarding the location of your
>  SLQserver or MySQL server database and PHP2 webserver.  As for the use
>  of Archon's administrative interface, all of the modules have pop-up
>  information bottons built into the program to help explain what types of
>  information should be placed in each field.  You may need some help with
>  the importing of your current word lists, but this should be fairly
>  straight forward.  I hope this has helped answer your question.  If not
>  please let me and the rest of the Archon team know.  Thanks.  Scott
>
>
>
>  Jacqui Hayes wrote:
>  >
>  > To use archon do you need expertise in IT or do you need specific
>  > training.  I am an archivist with average IT skills.  We have
>  > converted some of our collections lists into EAD and they are on
>  > Archon as part of a publicly funded project.  I would like to continue
>  > the project and bring it in house- which would mean acquiring skills
>  > in the use of Archon and the conversion of Microsoft word lists in
>  > IASDG format into EAD. Advice would be appreciated.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Many Thanks
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Jacqui
>  >
>  >
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Kyle Jordan Fox


Senior in Computer Science
Developer - Archon Simple Archival Information System
Tour Manager/Internet Officer - Varsity Men's Glee Club
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University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

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