Hi Jane,

Have you looked at Alex Duryee’s Timewalk plugin? 
https://github.com/alexduryee/timewalk - it essentially rewires ASpace to do 
date normalization (if possible according to a fairly wide-ranging set of 
rules) automatically on save – you’d then need to trigger save on the resources 
in question, which shouldn’t be too hard to script.

- Dave

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Jane LaBarbara <[email protected]>
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Date: Friday, September 8, 2017 at 1:50 PM
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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Normalizing dates in bulk?

All,

If anyone has successfully scripted a method of posting normalized dates into 
ArchivesSpace resource records en masse, please let me know.  When we imported 
our resource record EAD files, most of our collections had inclusive dates that 
were not normalized.  With the new PUI giving researchers the ability to search 
a specific range of years, we’d really like to normalize our dates without 
having a student worker go through and do it by hand for 4300+ resource 
records.  If I can get the data into a spreadsheet, I can pretty easily 
separate what we have into beginning and ending years, but I need to be able to 
shove that data back into ArchivesSpace.

Bonus points if you can also help us script posting of normalized dates to 
component records!

Thank you,
Jane

/ Jane Metters LaBarbara
Assistant Curator, West Virginia & Regional History 
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