[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Editing display columns for Collection Management in AS

Hello, everyone - We are trying to modify the columns that display in Collection Management (Browse ==> Collection Management ... We've looked in various places within the web admin interface, as well as the most often-edited configuration files on our AS server, but thus far have not been

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Take a break with ArchivesSpace on Friday cancelled this week

Dear ArchivesSpace Users, LYRASIS will be observing Juneteenth tomorrow and staff will not be available for our standing Friday afternoon break. We will resume our Friday breaks with ArchivesSpace next Friday, June 26th. Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for a great chat. We

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Partially deleted repository

Hi all, Last year when we were considering joining ArchivesSpace, our IT department created a test repository for me. When we joined, they created our "real" repository, which I am still using. When I go to Manage Repositories (signed in as Admin), the test repository is still listed, but I am

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Top container ranges

Hi Dawne, I believe Yale created a script to break out container ranges: https://github.com/YaleArchivesSpace/xslt-files/blob/master/EAD_expand_top_container_ranges_prior_to_import.xsl Best wishes, Adrien From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org On Behalf Of Mayo, Dave

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Top container ranges

What Dave said. From a practical standpoint, you have these options: 1. Change the EAD pre-migration 2. Change the data in Aspace 3. Live with the data like that (your cost of cleaning v living with it may vary, but it is worth having the discussion. My repository had some

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Top container ranges

Also, specifically: 1. Using an XML database like eXist-db or BaseX with XPath/XQuery was invaluable when doing analysis of issues and of the impact of changes 2. One of the tools I wrote, the EAD Checker, is available online: https://eadchecker.lib.harvard.edu – it doesn’t catch this

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Top container ranges

So, with the caveat that we put a lot of resources (a bunch of archivists’ time, a full year of a full time developer (me!)), we had very solid results; I think remediating issues prior to import is almost always worth the expense of significant effort, particularly over a large corpus. My

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Top container ranges

Thanks, Dave. I guess I should have specified that changing the EAD isn’t a viable solution for us unless it’s automated. We do not plan to edit individual finding aids manually except in cases where the ranges aren’t regular. If you’ve done this at Harvard, have there been any drawbacks?

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Top container ranges

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,

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Top container ranges

One quick-follow up: we’re not completely clueless about how we might do this, but appreciate hearing about the experience at other institutions. For those institutions that have done this, were there any drawbacks? Thanks, Dawne From: Lucas, Dawne Howard Sent:

[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: 3-4Photographs This imports into ASpace just fine (yay!), but of