The two options I see here are essentially: 1. Change the EAD 2. Change the containers after they’re ingested.
Of the two, changing the EAD seems _easier_ to me; if you wouldn’t mind going more into why that’s not a viable solution for you, it might help us provide better advice? Either way, at 7000 finding aids, the solution would basically need to be automated – if your box ranges are very regular (i.e. only single number or range, no “3,4,7-10” or similar), it wouldn’t be too difficult – split the range on ‘-‘, generate list of numbers, replace container with multiple containers. -- Dave Mayo (he/him) Senior Digital Library Software Engineer Harvard University > HUIT > LTS From: <archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of "Lucas, Dawne Howard" <dawne_lu...@unc.edu> Reply-To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org> Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 8:13 AM To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org> Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Top container ranges Hi all, We are formulating a plan to import our 7000+ EAD finding aids into ArchivesSpace and are wondering how other institutions have handled top container ranges. For example, we have finding aids coded like this: <c02><did><container type="box" label="Box">3-4</container><unittitle>Photographs</unittitle></did></c02> This imports into ASpace just fine (yay!), but of course also creates a top container for Box 3-4 instead of Box 3 and Box 4 (boo!). We assume this will be an issue later when we integrate with Aeon. The most obvious solution to this problem appears to be to change the encoding to: <c02><did><container type="box" label="Box">3</container><unittitle>Photographs</unittitle></did></c02> <c02><did><container type="box" label="Box">4 </container><unittitle>Photographs</unittitle></did></c02> For several reasons, this is not a viable solution for us. Have other institutions figured out a way to deal with this issue that does not include editing the EAD in individual finding aids? Thanks for your help, Dawne -- Dawne Howard Lucas (she/her/hers) Technical Services Archivist Wilson Special Collections Library 200 South Road, CB #3926 Chapel Hill, NC 27515 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill P 919-966-1776 E dawne_lu...@unc.edu<mailto:dawne_lu...@unc.edu> [cid:image001.png@01D5F200.0D957C80]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__library.unc.edu_wilson_&d=DwMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=_Mv1dY22K7jvT5MD7xjbvGVzRDOUMhx4WYcnPSIzYnE&m=tkJE1JdGvSoNb5i6NSRbF3z1n28dGeVJ4ogcFmpTpQo&s=e9r4LIAN87oWg7LLTrzui9bCYcCMX-8twYfh3y0I8tY&e=>
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