I’m assuming that each of these datum are optional? In other words, it’s a
configurable choice from among these pieces of information?
One that I would add would be collection creator.
Kate
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Does anyone have any idea what this is meant to tell me?
Thanks!
Error: #NoMethodError: undefined method `container' for
#Hash:0x4d0ab22a
Kate
Kate Bowers
Collections Services Archivist for Metadata, Systems, and Standards
Harvard University Archives
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[mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of
Bowers, Kate A.
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 11:33 AM
To: Archivesspace Users Group
Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Need help Interpreting an EAD ingest error
message
Does anyone have a
ISNI and ORCID are agent identifiers, not authority record identifiers. For
MARC-fluent readers, this is like the difference between MARC authority 024
field as compared with MARC authority 010 or 016, so ArchivesSpace “Authority
ID” is not the correct place for ISNI or ORCID. There may be
While we have not yet implemented container management in AS, we are looking
very hard at how we might do so, and so examining the business model in AS
very closely and comparing it to our current locations and container management
database, so I am really glad to see your question!
At the
kes sense. If not, I
can write something else up later today.
All my best,
Mark
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Bowers
un...@lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of
Bowers, Kate A.
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:26 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group
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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] "share"
Mark:
This is a great summary of the issues, and because we have all kinds of mixed
content migrated into AS in unit titles, I can see that lots
of our EAD3 from AS will be invalid.
Kate
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I think it is really searching:
University OR of OR Denver
Try keying in University AND Denver and see if you have better luck.
(Annoying default OR operator is annoying.)
Kate
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Dear ArchivesSpace community:
Apologies for the length of this. I’ll try to address a lot of comments, but
not all! Please let me know if (as they may well do) my elaborations only
elicit more questions!
In general, most of these proposals are derived from facing problems of scale.
Harvard
Do you mean to import archival objects to an existing resource? If so, I think
you are looking for this:
https://github.com/harvard-library/aspace-import-excel
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On Behalf Of Belair,
Andrea
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2019 1:56 PM
EAD has fewer contraints than ArchivesSpace. Those error messages are not
terribly helpful. At the very end of this article (before the end notes) is a
list of the constraints in AS that will throw an error if your EAD does not
comply:
https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/12239
I think the
Please let me know IN ENGLISH what I should be looking for in my ead that is
preventing ingest.
Every container has both a label and type attribute.
Thanks,
Kate
First error message, then I changed them all to "Mixed materials"
!!
The
Never mind-it means the BOX NUMBER is missing.
It would be really helpful if a) the exact information like the title or
something was included in error message and also if they were in plain english.
Kate
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On Behalf Of Bowers
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On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 1:29 PM Bowers, Kate A.
mailto:kate_bow...@harvard.edu>> wrote:
Here at the Harvard University Archives (HUA), we are interested to know ho
Here at the Harvard University Archives (HUA), we are interested to know how
our colleagues are managing special collections inventory.
We are hoping to find colleagues who, like us, manage physical inventory of
books as well as archival holdings. At HUA we have a long history of storing
rare
I tried to ingest a resource from MARC XML. The error message said it needed an
EADID. However, MARC doesn't have a specific field for EADIDs and this page in
the user manual
https://docs.archivesspace.org/Default.htm#ImportMARCXML.htm?Highlight=marc
does not say anything about how or where to
still be
interested in understanding the logic of user defined fields and
resources/archival objects. I’m very much a newbie so apologies if I have
missed something obvious about them.
Many thanks!
Natalie
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On Behalf Of Bowers
It would be helpful if you can give examples of the data fields you wish to
migrate.
Kate
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On Behalf Of Natalie
Adams
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2019 11:26 AM
To: archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org
Subject:
At the end of our article "The Devil's Shoehorn"
https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/12239 there is an appendix of problems.
Many of these are valid EAD that don't import. It is listed by EAD element
name. Things may have changed but this at least is a starting-point checklist.
Kate
From:
This needs to either be editable or include all of these controlled
vocabularies (405 of them) with the ability to suppress display of them by
repository managers:
https://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/subject.html
Kate
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On
RDA is only relevant to the records written in accordance with RDA. You can do
anything you like in ArchivesSpace. If the records are exported to a MARC
environment, the consequences may vary depending on the system. Most MARC
systems are shared, meaning that other people might be able to
Do you have an idea of what the limit is? That is: what is the largest number
of rows you have successfully imported as accessions via spreadsheet?
Thanks!
Kate
Kate Bowers
Collections Services Archivist for Metadata, Standards, and Systems
Harvard University Archives
kate_bow...@harvard.edu
There is "processing status" in accession records. I don't think there is a way
to update processing statuses in bulk through the user interface, but it is a
good place to indicate whether an accession has been processed or not or
something in between.
Processing statuses can be the default or
I cannot find good basic information on the purpose and use of rights
statements in ArchivesSpace. I am particularly looking something that would
describe the differences among the purpose and uses of:
·Conditions governing access
·Conditions governing use
·Rights
be used. All I can say is that they
are derived from PREMIS and it's not clear how different organizations are
using it.
All the best,
Dan
On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 11:48 AM Bowers, Kate A.
mailto:kate_bow...@harvard.edu>> wrote:
I cannot find good basic information on the purpose
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
Can the user edit agent records without a problem?
Can the user delete agent records?
Can other users merge agent records?
If the answer to the final question is Yes, I'd compare the user's group's
permissions to the permissions of the other groups and see what the differences
are.
Kate
Kate
Interesting! All of these are in our specification for our custom container
management system, which we determined we needed because ArchivesSpace could
not accommodate them. It’s nice to see our needs were not unique.
Kate
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On
For others who don’t have to consult the user manual often and might be
confused
This is the link to help from the AS staff UI
https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ArchivesSpaceUserManual/overview
If you are not logged in to “Atlassian” when you go to this link, you land on a
Imagine a case where you take in an entire archive, with its own accession data
and accession number format, and you wish to create one-to-one accessions in
your own system for the accessions that you inherited.
Imagine a case where accession numbers had been assigned in error.
Imagine you
rasis.org>
800.999.8558 x2905
678-235-2905
[ASpaceOrgHomeMedium]
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On Behalf Of Bowers
Thanks, Maureen, for making this distinction really clear!
Do you know of any documentation (official AS or other) that explains the uses
for which Rights Statements were intended?
Many folks are confusing “rights statements” which are meant for use in digital
preservation environments with
Does anyone know where I can find a list of exactly which fields from LCNAF
authority records go into which fields in AS agent records if one implements
the LCNAF plug-in?
I've search git-hub and the AS wiki'd and AS help and I have not found details
on exactly what the import does.
Thanks!
uite a bit of mucking around to see where the data is going, but it
is possible to figure it out.
Kate
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On Behalf Of Bowers,
Kate A.
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2022 12:21 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group
Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group
If your subjects and agents are coming from thesauri (not initiated in your own
repository) I’m not sure what rights statements about this metadata would be
applicable. For example, if you are using AAT or any of the Getty thesauri:
https://www.getty.edu/legal/copyright.html
From:
Can you explain the case for open-ended dates for resources, accessions,
archival, or digital objects?
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On Behalf Of Ron Van
den Branden
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2022 10:32 AM
To: archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org
I suspect that you are opening the template in MS Excel and then pasting. Is
that correct?
If so, one work-around is to use the text import wizard in Excel, which allows
you to format the data as it goes into the cells. I generally just make all
data I paste into Excel "text" so that Excel
We don’t use AS for doing much with digital objects except to provide links to
access objects in our digital repository and sometimes provide thumbnails. Our
METS and MODS are all made elsewhere and stored in our digital repository along
with the objects, so AS is not our tool for these
.lyrasis.org>>
On Behalf Of Bowers, Kate A.
Sent: Friday, May 5, 2023 11:20 AM
To: Archivesspace Users Group
mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org>>
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Digital Objects
We don’t use AS for doing much with digital objects except to
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