Hi Christine, As one of the participants in the small group that pulled together the specification for the enhancement to rights statements, I don’t think we ever considered this use case (speaking only for myself, I wasn’t even aware it was possible to add a rights statement to an Agent record). My personal take is that the spec would need to be substantially rewritten if we were to include rights statements for Agents, so I’d be in favor of removing this functionality.
Hillel -- Hillel Arnold Assistant Director, Head of Digital Programs Rockefeller Archive Center 914.366.6382 From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Christine Di Bella <[email protected]> Reply-To: Archivesspace Users Group <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 3:12 PM To: Archivesspace Users Group <[email protected]>, Archivesspace Member Reps <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] another question on rights statements in ArchivesSpace - agents and rights statements Hello members, I have another question related to the upcoming enhancement of the rights statements sub-record in ArchivesSpace. Is anyone creating rights statements attached to agents? Currently the application allows you to create a rights statement sub-record from an Agent record. This could be interpreted as being the rights for the agent him/her/themselves, rather than for specific material. We believe this may have been done in error. There has been a longstanding feature request to enable someone to see a list of the materials for which a particular agent holds rights, but not allow a rights sub-record to be created for an agent: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1297 The new model will allow for agents to be linked from rights statements attached to accessions, resources, or digital objects. (See https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-112) In addition to being PREMIS-compliant, we think this may also have been the original intent. But I’m interested to hear if and how people have used the capability to create a rights statement for an agent in ArchivesSpace. If you could no longer create a rights statement for an agent, would this cause a problem? Thanks for any input, positive or negative! Christine Christine Di Bella ArchivesSpace Program Manager [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 800.999.8558 x2905 678-235-2905 cdibella13 (Skype) [SpaceOrgHomeMedium]
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