Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Quick Question about Migrating from Archon 3.21

2017-07-07 Thread Brian Harrington
. Archon -> ASpace 1.4.2 -> the current version of ASpace. I do this semi-regularly, and it works well. Now for the geeky questions. :-) Brian — Brian Harrington Migration Specialist LYRASIS brian.harring...@lyrasis.org Skype: abbistani > On Jul 7, 2017, at 9:47 AM, Rob Green <rob.g

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] EAD Importer and DAOs

2018-05-25 Thread Brian Harrington
ive to ASpace restrictions ahead of EAD > import attempts. In that manner, those non-conformant captions (and anything > else you check on) could be tweaked before import. > > Cheers, > ~Tim > >> On May 23, 2018, at 2:39 PM, Brian Harrington <brian.harring...@lyrasis.org&

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] EAD Importer and DAOs

2018-05-23 Thread Brian Harrington
and caption, or truncate the caption to 255 characters? My inclination is just to increase the maximum length of captions, and rely on people to show restraint, but I know that other people might have different opinions. Thanks, Brian -- Brian Harrington Migration Specialist LYRASIS

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] migration question:

2018-06-08 Thread Brian Harrington
Hi Matthew, The URL the Archon Migrator requires is for the ArchivesSpace backend. Try https://archivesspace.library.uni.edu:8089 Brian — Brian Harrington Migration Specialist LYRASIS brian.harring...@lyrasis.org Skype: abbistani > On Jun 8, 2018, at 11:46 AM, Matthew Lawson wrote: >

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Problems with Accessions CSV upload

2018-12-20 Thread Brian Harrington
to agent_name_primary_name, and then add either an agent_name_source or and agent_name_rules. (I used “dacs” in agent_name_rules). Then the csv should load. :-) I’d say this needs to be better documented somewhere, but then I’d feel guilty for not having written it up myself. Brian — Brian Harrington Migration

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Migration from Archon - login Endpoint not found

2019-05-15 Thread Brian Harrington
— Brian Harrington Migration Specialist LYRASIS brian.harring...@lyrasis.org Skype: abbistani > On May 15, 2019, at 3:55 PM, Bill Bellon wrote: > > I’m trying to migrate from Archon (3.21 rev-3) to Archives Space (2.5.2) > using the Java desktop migration tool after having

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Harvard Excel Upload plugin working on AS 2.6.0?

2019-08-19 Thread Brian Harrington
Hi Kara, Did you add it to your config.rb? For example: AppConfig[:plugins] = ['local', 'lcnaf', 'aspace-import-excel’] Brian > On Aug 19, 2019, at 3:28 PM, Kara Hart wrote: > > I installed the new version of Harvard aspace-import-excel 2.1.20. I wasn't > sure exactly how to do that. I

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] ID [Archivists Toolkit Database::RESOURCE]

2019-08-05 Thread Brian Harrington
Hi Ed, That’s an external ID. They are usually hidden from view, but if you add "AppConfig[:show_external_ids] = true” to your config.rb, they should show up on the staff side. I hope this helps, Brian — Brian Harrington Migration Specialist LYRASIS brian.harring...@lyrasis.org

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Archon to AS migration data issue

2019-11-06 Thread Brian Harrington
Hi Josh, I’m wondering if there might be a problem with Intellectual vs. Physical containers. Take a look at the Level/Container Manager section in this document https://github.com/archivesspace/tech-docs/blob/master/migrations/migrate_from_archon.md and see if that helps. If that doesn’t

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Using the API from perl - "Must be a JSONModel(:resource) uri (you provided a Hash)"

2019-11-25 Thread Brian Harrington
Hi Alan, You ought to be able to add the resource reference to your archival object hash as another hash, like: resource => {ref => "/repositories/3/resources/391”} If that’s not working, I’d be happy to take a look at your code if you want to send it to me directly. Brian > On Nov 25,

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Trouble transferring resource

2020-01-07 Thread Brian Harrington
in the old repo, ASpace can’t move it. I suspect you would get this same message with any repo-scoped item that is linked to multiple resources. Could this be your issue? Brian — Brian Harrington Migration Specialist LYRASIS brian.harring...@lyrasis.org > On Jan 7, 2020, at 2:09 PM, Don

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Unprocessed Accessions Report

2020-10-01 Thread Brian Harrington
/2015/11/20/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-api/ useful. She describes how she used OpenRefine and a little bit of shell scripting to add processing status events to all of her accessions. I hope this helps, Brian -- Brian Harrington Data Migration Specialist LYRASIS brian.harring

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Appraisal information database location

2020-11-19 Thread Brian Harrington
this helps. Brian -- Brian Harrington (he/him) Data Migration Specialist LYRASIS brian.harring...@lyrasis.org From: on behalf of Bryan W Sutherland Reply-To: Archivesspace Users Group Date: Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 1:50 PM To: "archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org"

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Strange indexing issue v2.81

2020-11-19 Thread Brian Harrington
Hi Zach, Try truncating the deleted_records table and reindexing. That usually seems to solve issues with resources disappearing from the search. Brian -- Brian Harrington (he/him) Data Migration Specialist LYRASIS brian.harring...@lyrasis.org From: on behalf of Zachary L Pelli Reply

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Generate PDF Staff side failing - Preservica added content?

2021-04-01 Thread Brian Harrington
And looking more closely, I see that Steve already identified the problematic links for you. Sorry about the duplication. Brian From: on behalf of Brian Harrington Reply-To: Archivesspace Users Group Date: Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 12:37 PM To: Archivesspace Users Group Subject: Re

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Generate PDF Staff side failing - Preservica added content?

2021-04-01 Thread Brian Harrington
Hi Ed, It looks like the problem is with s (or anything else) that have an @href attribute that has anything other than the bare URL in it. For example, this one: https://us.preservica.com/explorer/explorer.html#prop:76e734ad9-75bc-4f06-a5a0-7aa458e39746Preservica Internal/a"

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Unpublished and suppressed records

2021-02-23 Thread Brian Harrington
Hi Jennifer, The built-in “Resources List Report” includes a column for published status. Would that work for your purposes? And I’m 99% certain suppressed records aren’t included in OAI. If they are, it’s a bug. I hope this helps. Brian -- Brian Harrington (he/him) Data Migration

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] API output - extra unicode

2021-09-03 Thread Brian Harrington
Hi Tom, In my experience \u00c3 appearing in anything is almost always a sign of encoding issues. I would make sure that everything is UTF-8 all the way through. Brian From: on behalf of Tom Hanstra Reply-To: Archivesspace Users Group Date: Friday, September 3, 2021 at 11:06 AM To:

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Error generating PDF export for a finding aid.

2022-03-15 Thread Brian Harrington
Hi Kirill, Usually this error means that you have a or with a target that doesn’t exist. If you have trouble finding it, and want to post an EAD export from the collection here, we can help you track it down. Brian From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org on behalf

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Rights statements not showing up in the public interface

2022-03-25 Thread Brian Harrington
I’ve gotten the impression that rights statements were created for people who wanted more structure than a mixed content note can provide. Some of the specs even refer to them as “machine-actionable rights statements.” I would love to hear from folks that have implemented systems based on the

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Problem attaching digital objects to resources in ArchivesSpace 3.1.1

2022-06-19 Thread Brian Harrington
-- Brian Harrington (he/him) Data Migration Specialist LYRASIS brian.harring...@lyrasis.org From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org on behalf of Scott Prater Date: Friday, June 17, 2022 at 6:15 PM To: archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org Subject

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Issue with searching by identifier in PUI

2022-12-16 Thread Brian Harrington
Hi Jesse, Just FYI, there’s a JIRA for this issue here: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-1556 Brian From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org on behalf of Jesse Griffis Date: Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 2:53 PM To: Archivesspace Users Group Subject:

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] MARC XML import

2023-01-24 Thread Brian Harrington
ognizes 008 dates if 008/06 is an i, k, or s, and you have a q there. It probably should recognize the q, but the quick fix would be to change that to an i or an s. I hope this helps. Brian -- Brian Harrington (he/him) Data Migration Specialist LYRASIS brian.harring...@lyrasis.org

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Question about OAI harvest of MARCXML records

2023-03-10 Thread Brian Harrington
Hi Andy, Try set=collection, with no “s”. I think that’s your problem. Brian From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org on behalf of Andy Boze Date: Friday, March 10, 2023 at 2:45 PM To: Archivesspace Users Group Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Question about OAI

Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] [External] Auto formatting with dates on Accession CSV import template

2023-05-04 Thread Brian Harrington
. There are two ways to get around them. The first is to save from Excel with the file type set to CSV UTF-8 rather than regular CSV. The second is to look non-UTF-8 characters in your CSV and change them. These are usually curly quotes and em-dashes. I hope this helps. Brian -- Brian