Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Agent Relationship Associative Relator

[James Bullen]

Hi Peter,

A few years ago I wrote a script for this purpose:
https://gist.github.com/jambun/553434b0e81644a53229

May be useful.

A couple of caveats:
  - The uneditable enumerations are generally uneditable for good reason.
  - Things may have changed.


Cheers,
James



> On Nov 26, 2019, at 4:03 PM, Collopy, Peter S.  wrote:
> 
> Hi all. Here at Caltech we’re experimenting with using ArchivesSpace agent 
> records in order to link together our information and holdings related to 
> Caltech people across several digital and tangible repositories. One key 
> piece of information is what relationship each individual had to Caltech 
> (typically one or more of faculty, student, staff, trustee). It makes sense 
> to us to do this using Related Agents subrecords of the agent, with an 
> associative relationship between each individual and a Corporate Entity agent 
> record representing Caltech as an organization. It also makes sense to us to 
> use the Relationship Type field as a controlled vocabulary of these specific 
> relationships individuals have with Caltech.
> 
> The agent_relationship_associative_relator controlled value list, though, is 
> one of the ones which is configured to be uneditable in ArchivesSpace. I 
> understand from past emails in this list (specifically Adam Jazairi and 
> Alexander Duryee’s emails on March 8, 2018) that it’s possible to make these 
> uneditable lists editable. I have two questions I’d appreciate help with from 
> anyone knowledgable, then:
> 
> 1. How does one make these lists editable? I don’t see anything in config.rb. 
> Does it require more direct interaction with the database? Am I overlooking 
> something?
> 
> 2. Would extending this particular controlled value list cause any problems 
> for exports to standard formats? Agents only export to EAC-CPF. It looks like 
> the exporter puts the relator (currently the default, “is_associative_with”) 
> in cpfRelationType, which doesn’t look right from the EAC-CPF spec to me, but 
> it doesn’t seem like it would cause problems to put “is_faculty_of” or the 
> link there instead—if we even have a reason to export EAC-CPF.
> 
> Thanks for any thoughts!
> 
> Peter
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[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Agent Relationship Associative Relator

[Collopy, Peter S.]

Hi all. Here at Caltech we’re experimenting with using ArchivesSpace agent 
records in order to link together our information and holdings related to 
Caltech people across several digital and tangible repositories. One key piece 
of information is what relationship each individual had to Caltech (typically 
one or more of faculty, student, staff, trustee). It makes sense to us to do 
this using Related Agents subrecords of the agent, with an associative 
relationship between each individual and a Corporate Entity agent record 
representing Caltech as an organization. It also makes sense to us to use the 
Relationship Type field as a controlled vocabulary of these specific 
relationships individuals have with Caltech.

The agent_relationship_associative_relator controlled value list, though, is 
one of the ones which is configured to be uneditable in ArchivesSpace. I 
understand from past emails in this list (specifically Adam Jazairi and 
Alexander Duryee’s emails on March 8, 2018) that it’s possible to make these 
uneditable lists editable. I have two questions I’d appreciate help with from 
anyone knowledgable, then:

1. How does one make these lists editable? I don’t see anything in config.rb. 
Does it require more direct interaction with the database? Am I overlooking 
something?

2. Would extending this particular controlled value list cause any problems for 
exports to standard formats? Agents only export to EAC-CPF. It looks like the 
exporter puts the relator (currently the default, “is_associative_with”) in 
cpfRelationType, which doesn’t look right from the EAC-CPF spec to me, but it 
doesn’t seem like it would cause problems to put “is_faculty_of” or the link 
there instead—if we even have a reason to export EAC-CPF.

Thanks for any thoughts!

Peter
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