Recent Posts

Over the past year and a half, we’ve been working on a join project with Columbia University to develop the application we call the Fluxx Exporter. You can read more about it in a series of blog posts by Hillel Arnold and Hannah Sistrunk about its initial release, testing the UX, releasing an updated version, and releasing the last major version 3.0. In short, this application helps our donors export digital grant records from the grants management system Fluxx. After a round of open testing, we released Fluxx Exporter Version 2, which updated the application to make it easier for users to install and get up and running. This release bundle the application into Unix and Windows executables for ease of use.

Unfortunately, that’s when best practice and security compliance reared its head.

We just released version 3.0 of Fluxx Exporter, an open-source tool that integrates with the Fluxx grants management system to allow users to select and export grant information for internal or external uses including long-term preservation, researcher access, and organizational learning and evaluation. The changes to this version of the application are focused largely on simplifying installation and initial setup.

A team of four with mixed expertise ran a rigorous web accessibility audit of 16 Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) sites while supporting learning about digital accessibility across the organization. In this post, I’ll walk through our process and key takeaways from the project.

In May 2025, Director of Archives Bob Clark, Associate Director Hillel Arnold, and Processing Archivists Darren Young and Katie Martin spent three days in Brussels, Belgium, packing and inventorying the RAC’s first collection from an international organization based outside of the United States: The Union of International Associations (UIA).

Year 2 of the Digital Processing Collaborative (DPC) included demos, discussions, and a fair share of “aha!” (and “huh?”) moments. We focused on clarifying responsibilities around born-digital processing and most importantly identifying what “processing” actually includes. That clarity allowed us to update our Processing Manual which was a big win for the year. But when we asked ourselves how we would actually accomplish those tasks, things began to look a little unclear.