Creating an annual accessions report using AtoM
So, it is that time of year where we need to complete our annual report on accessions for the National Archives. Along with lots of other archives across the UK we send The National Archives summary information about all the accessions we have received over the course of the previous year. This information is collated and provided online on the Accessions to Repositories website for all to see. The creation of this report has always been a bit time consuming for our archivists, involving a lot of manual steps and some re-typing but since we have started using AtoM as our Archival Management System the process has become much more straightforward. As I've reported in a previous blog post , AtoM does not do all that we want to do in the way of reporting via it's front end. However, AtoM has an underlying MySQL database and there is nothing to stop you bypassing the interface, looking at the data behind the scenes and pulling out all the information you need. One of the things we