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About Archeion

Archeion is Ontario’s Archival Information Network. AAO Institutional membership includes participation in Archeion, the central research portal for Ontario’s history and directory for its archival institutions. You can visit Archeion at https://www.archeion.ca.

Kelli Babcock is the Archeion Coordinator and can be reached at archeion@aao-archivists.ca to answer any of your questions and provide free advice, training and resources for using Archeion.

Institutional members contribute archival descriptions, authority records, and institutional profiles to the shared database. To learn more about the AAO’s Institutional membership, visit our Membership page or contact the Archeion Coordinator.

Archeion Timeline

Visit the Archeion timeline to learn more about the history of Archeion.


 Quick Facts for Institutions

        • In 2021, Archeion pages were visited over 433,000 times by over 92,000 users; over 91,000 of those users were new visitors to the database.
        • While Canadians were heavily represented in Archeion users, thousands of visitors reached members’ pages from the United States in 2021, while hundreds more visitors connected from Asia, Australia, Europe… and the list goes on.
        • Archeion listings are indexed by Google, so member institutions’ contributions appear in regular Google searches. Adding your records to Archeion reduces institutional barriers to access and increases the discovery of your records.
        • The wide variety of subject, place and genre access points, as well as the shared list of authority records, allows users to discover your institution’s records from related records held by other institutions.
        • The Archeion Coordinator can train you to prepare bulk uploads of archival descriptions. Many institutions with existing databases or finding aids are able to map their data to the Archeion framework to simplify bulk uploading. The Archeion Coordinator takes care of uploads for Institutional Members.
        • Artefactual Systems Inc., our software host, performs nightly backups of Archeion data. All Archeion data is stored in data centres dispersed across Canada to ensure data redundancy and security, and to mitigate environmental risks.


 Terminology

Archival descriptions provide information about groupings of archival materials held by collecting institutions such as archives, museums, libraries and historical societies. These descriptions provide information about the archival records such as titles, dates, subjects, creators, and much more. You can explore our archival descriptions here.

Authority records provide information about the creators of the archival records described in Archeion. Creators may be individuals, families, or corporate bodies. Corporate bodies include businesses, institutions, governing bodies, social organizations, and any other group that creates and keeps records as a collective. The authority records in Archeion provide information such as the dates of existence of these record creators, their official names and other names, and their biographies or administrative histories. You can browse our authority records (referred to as “People and organizations”) here.

Institutional profiles in Archeion provide information about the AAO institutional members contributing archival descriptions and authority records to the database. These institutional profiles include contact information, as well as business hours, collections mandates and policies, institutional histories and more. You can visit Archeion’s institutional profiles here.

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 Researching with Archeion

You can browse Archeion, perform a Basic search or perform an Advanced search.

Browsing

Click the “Browse” button next to the header bar search box, then select the type of record you would like to browse. Your options are:
You can also select one of the browse categories above from the “Browse by” menu on the Archeion home page


Basic searching

Perform a Basic search by typing your search terms into the header bar search box.


Advanced searching

Perform an Advanced search by clicking inside of the header bar search box, then clicking “Advanced search.”

 This Month's Archeion feature:

Who? Archives of the Law Society of Ontario

When did you join Archeion? Ca. 2001

Why does your institution contribute to Archeion? 

“To promote our holdings and institution, and to allow researchers to search our collections.”

What does your institution enjoy most about Archeion?

“Ease of use."

Featured content

“Three letter books maintained by Newton Wesley Rowell while an articling student with the firm of Fraser and Fraser in London, Ontario (1890-1891).”


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