Jordon,

  1.  As far as I know, you would have to do that in a plugin right now. Here's 
an example, since it's not obvious where one would do that:  
https://github.com/YaleArchivesSpace/yale_pui_customizations/commit/18b7be17825cc84916d2b0ad6cd4cfe776545462#diff-7ff34653933e2e6d670c7b053db80db6
  So, you just put a list of the notes you want to display above the accordions 
in the "non_folder" variable, and include the ones that appear in the 
accordions" in the "folder" variable.   All that said, I'd personally like to 
see the PUI try something else other than using accordions by default to hide 
notes.



  1.  I also think that Digital Objects in general should be overhauled in 
ArchivesSpace (both on the staff and public side)....  I'd actually prefer 
something like the "File URI" subrecords be something that you could associate 
with archival object, resource, an accession records, rather than have digital 
object records at all (we don't isolate description in ASpace for anything else 
based on format).  That said, some folks have used a plugin to add a bit of 
javascript that opens all of the accordions by default so that the contents are 
immediately visible (and findable with a browser search).  That might be 
another way rather than just re-ordering what notes display above the 
accordions.  And then Harvard did even more helpful customizations to highlight 
digital objects by making them their own tab on the collection-level pages.  
E.g. 
https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/resources/1248/digital_only
  I definitely think that feature (or something like it) needs to be part of 
the core public interface!

Mark



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Jordon Steele
Sent: Friday, 28 February, 2020 10:53 AM
To: Archivesspace Users Group <[email protected]>
Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Better notifying users of digital content 
presence

Hello,

When our collections have digital content associated with them, our practice is 
to add an "Existence and Location of Copies" note to the collection level 
indicating the presence of digital content like digitized copies of the 
originals. (We do other stuff at lower levels, too.) However, by default, this 
note only appears if you click the "Expand All" button. This means that users 
and staff often request boxes-especially small collections-without noticing 
that all or part of the collection is scanned.

We're considering changing the order of the notes so that this note features 
more prominently, above the "Expand All" fold. I have two questions.


  1.  Is this something that is configurable in the standard staff-side 
interface of ASpace, or would the PUI plug-in need to be edited? (I think the 
answer is the latter, but just confirming I am not missing something.)
  2.  Bumping the note above the "Expand All" fold is just the first idea that 
came to mind. Do you have other ways you signal to users on the 
collection-level page the presence of digital content? If so, I'm all ears.

Thank you in advance, and sorry if this has been discussed before!

Best,

Jordon

Jordon Steele
Hodson Curator of the University Archives
Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21218
410-516-5493
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